The Colonnade
The Official Student Newspaper of Georgia College & State University

September 17, 2010

www.GCSUnade.com

Volume 87, No. 4

Students
celebrate,
discuss
Constitution
Cara Davis
Staff Writer

Lauren Corcino / Staff Photographer
Season opener now playing
Shirelle Ruddock, who plays Calpurnia in “To Kill a Mocking Bird” scolds (from left to right) Andrew Markle, Carson Butterworth, Ross Daniel, who play Jem,
Scout and Dill, respectively. Jem, Scout and Dill snuck into the courthouse to watch the trial of Tom Robinson. The play is showing in Russell Auditorium Sept.
14 to Sept. 19. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the first of the 2010-11 Theatre Season. For an in depth look at the play and a profile on Carson Butterworth, see
page 10.

Recycling debuts on campus
Katelyn Hebert
Senior Reporter
After years of waste audits,
green fee proposals and recycle
drives, GCSU is going green with
campus-wide recycling Sept. 20.
More than 30 bins are going
to be added to the entrances of 33
buildings, residence halls and The
Village apartments. The bins will
each have four compartments for
newspaper, mixed paper, plastic
bottles and aluminum cans. The
Environmental Science Club will
continue to collect white paper recycling throughout much of campus.
“I’m terribly excited,” said
Doug Oetter, associate professor of
geography and advisor for the Environmental Science Club, who has
been involved with the project for
years. “I think it’s the epitome of a
progressive institution to manage
its waste in a way that makes ecological and economic sense.”
The price of going green
The total project will cost approximately $60,000 taken from
stimulus money last fiscal year—
$30,000 for materials and $30,000
for services according to Kevin
Murner, associate director for energy management, utilities, and
emergency preparedness and occupational safety.

energy management, utilities, and
emergency preparedness and occupational safety prepares to show the
bins to the Sustainability Council.
Advanced Waste will pick up
the recycling as needed and GCSU
will be reimbursed for whatever is
generated.
“The real savings is going to be
less trash, and that’s where we’re

In 2006 the Environmental Science Club and an environmental
audit class conducted a waste audit
to estimate the amount of recyclable
materials GCSU throws away each
year. They found approximately
65 percent of GCSU’s waste could
have been recycled. And, according
to Murner, GCSU tossed 600 tons
of waste last year.
Through their research, a campus-wide ad hoc recycling committee was formed. The committee made recommendations for a
comprehensive recycling program
to be adopted on campus. The program was approved by the Student
Government Association and the
University Senate in 2008.
In May 2009 a student fee – a
“green fee”– was proposed and approved by President Dorothy Leland. However, the Board of Regents nixed the proposal.
Last year SGA made a final
push, and the new recycling program was approved. SGA has been
organizing the process, getting student organization volunteers and
assigning them as well as setting up
meeting times for the groups.
“I love the program,” SGA pres

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$41,814
Could be earned from
selling all recyclable
materials at GCSU

$56,921
Could be saved on the
price of waste hauling if
materials were recycled

$60,000
Cost of the new campus
recycling program

$38,735
Total possible profit for
recycling program

Constitution Week at GCSU took place
Sept. 13 to Sept. 16. All of the events were
free and open to the public.
Constitution Week is a collaboration
between student organizations and departments on campus.
The American Democracy Project and
Lambda Pi Eta, the honor society for mass
communication and rhetoric students,
planned this year’s
events. On Sept. 13
Constiution
there was an opening
Day
keynote address from
The holiday
Jim Martin at 12:30
commemorates
p.m. in the Arts &
the formation
Sciences Auditorium.
and signing of
“The goal of Conthe Constitution
stitution Week is to
on September
honor the wisdom
17, 1787. It beand courage of the
gan as “I am an
people who founded
American Day”
the United States
in May 1940,
and wrote our founding documents, those
was moved to
whose names are well
Sept. 17 and
known and recorded
renamed “Citiin history books and
zenship Day”
those unsung heroes
in 1952, and
who fought and definally became
liberated for liberty,”
“Constitution
Gregg Kaufman, proand Citizenship
fessor in the DepartDay” in 2004.
ment of Government
and Sociology and
the Coordinator of
the GCSU American Democracy Project,
said.
The celebration continued Sept. 14 at
12:30 p.m. in Peabody Auditorium with
two speakers: Dennis Dunn, assistant attorney general for the state of Georgia, and
Anne W. Lewis of Strickland, Brockington, & Lewis LLP.
A documentary about the Constitution
and immigrant reform took place Sept. 15
at 12:30 p.m. in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium. The GCSU Bald Short Film Festival co-sponsored a reception for the guest
speakers of Wednesday’s event, documentary film makers Michael Camerini and
Shari Robertson, that afternoon. The two
film makers have had their 12-part film
series show on HBO and at international
film festivals.
Lambda Pi Eta sponsored the event
“What bursts your bubble: Redress or
Grievances?” on Sept. 16 at 12:30 p.m.
in the free speech zone on campus, also
known as the Bobcat head.
“WGUR will broadcast the event with a
live remote,” said Shannon Twomey, Secretary for Lambda Pi Eta and Public Re

Lindsay Shoemake
Staff Writer
GCSU’s newest Greek addition,
Theta Chi, is on the fast track to
hosting a successful rush as a chapter in the spring.
Since forming an official interest group for the new fraternity in
Spring 2010, the men of Theta Chi
have formed bonds while also gaining potential new members.
“We have a good amount of men
interested in Theta Chi at the moment,” junior management information systems major Alex Parton
said. “We plan on being chartered
by spring of 2011, so hopefully we
will have at least 15 interested men

News Flash

for spring rush.”
Theta Chi recently transitioned
from interest group to colony status, meaning that the group has
grown to at least 25 members.
Once Theta Chi gains 45 men,
the group will be able to petition
the fraternity’s national headquarters to assemble an official chapter
at GCSU.
As soon as an official chapter is
established, members of Theta Chi
will be eligible to receive annual
scholarships, professional mentoring, networking and leadership opportunities along with the usual

Second Annual Readers’ Choice Award
The Old Governor’s Mansion has been nominated by Lake Oconee Living for the second annual
Readers’ Choice Best of Lake Oconee Award.
It competed against 25 other nominees in the
best historical site category. It’s competitors
in Milledgeville included Georgia’s Old Capital,
Central State Hospital, Historic Downtown District and Scared Heart Church as well as sites
throughout the region such as the Uncle Remus
Museum in Eatonton and Bostwick Cotton Gin.
Other Milledgeville businesses were also nominated in several other categories.

Fraternity page 6

GCSU installed three
emergency sirens on
campus to enhance safety
and awareness.
Three emergency sirens were installed Sept.
8 and Sept. 9 in different locations on campus.
One is located at West
Campus behind the tennis
courts. The other two are
on central campus, one
behind the Wooten-Garner House and one near
Physical Plant.
These sirens have
been installed to increase
safety. The sirens will be
utilized during tornado

Quotable
“It’s so hard to have
money cut from students, but
when there are people not working
and people not eating, it’s hard to say...
what is more important.”
- Carol Bader, assistant dean in
Early Childhood Education

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warnings and during situations that involve armed
assailants on campus.
These sirens will be used
in addition to the Connect-ED program that is
already in place.
The sirens will sound
day or night and will
reach most of the immediate community. The
siren behind the WootenGarner house will reach
to both The Grove and
The Bellamy. The one
located near Physical
Plant will reach to College Station Apartments.
The West Campus siren
will be able to be heard
by surrounding Baldwin
county schools.
“This is something

News

Michael Forsyth / Senior Photographer
One of the new emergency sirens installed on campus. Plans
for the siren system were approved last Spring.

that is not only a service
for students but for the
surrounding community,”
Justin Gaines, coordinator
of Emergency Prepared-

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ness and Occupational
Safety, said. “It is a way
to give back and enhance

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Number Crunch

1918
Ennis Hall was originally built in
1918 as a women’s dormitory. In
1920 it was dedicated in honor
of Sen. J. Howard Ennis who
served as mayor of Milledgeville
from 1924 to 1927.
Source: www.gcsu.edu

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Flashback

September 17, 2010

Christian sorority
to host cancer walk

A look back into GCSU history

Anna Morris
Staff Writer

GCSU Library Special Collections
GCSU has endured a long history of name changes. This picture of Front Campus was taken circa
1955 when the college was still Georgia State College for Women. The college would not begin admitting male students until 1967 when it was renamed Georgia College at Milledgeville.

One in 71 women will develop ovarian cancer in their lifetimes, according to the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance. Known as “the
silent killer,” ovarian cancer is a worldwide
epidemic. Thanks to GCSU’s sorority Sigma
Alpha Omega, the Milledgeville community
will hopefully become more informed about
this deadly disease through SAO’s Ovarian
Cancer Walk event.
On Oct. 2, SAO will be hosting their third
annual Ovarian Cancer Walk on Front Campus from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lauren Harris,
SAO’s philanthropy chair and a sophomore
political science major, is excited about this
year’s walk.
“Basically we are just an excited group
of girls who want to spread awareness about
ovarian cancer while raising funds for the
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance,” Harris
said.
Along with the walk itself, Harris arranged
for live music and plenty of activities for the
participants as well as a guest speaker, which
all of the SAO girls are looking forward to
the most.
The speaker Shannon Routh started an organization called Teal Diva and will be talk-

Only a month before classes started,
many GCSU education majors lost a significant amount of their financial backing
for the fall semester as a result of the Promise Teacher Scholarship being suspended.
Due to hard economic times, the Georgia government suspended the program
since the funding was no longer available.
The Promise Teacher Scholarship Loan
Program provides up to $6,000 for students, and in return for the scholarship the
student agrees to teach after graduation in
a Georgia public school system at the preschool, elementary, middle or secondary
level. The student is given a maximum of
$3,000 per upperclassmen year. Students
generally receive $1,500 disbursements per
semester of their junior and senior year.
Courtney Gilliam, a senior middle
grades education major, received the
Promise Scholarship her junior year. She
relied on it for the rest of her tuition money
and was relieved when she did not have
to get another loan. Yet, for the 2010-11
academic year she was distressed when the
scholarship was suspended.
“When I found out (the scholarship)
was no longer being offered, I had to figure out a way to make things work in a
very short amount of time,” Gilliam said.
“I was living in The Village at the time and

By
The
Numbers

I knew that if I could find somewhere else ol Bader, assistant dean and professor in
to live, the other scholarships I had would Early Childhood Education, believes there
cover the rest of my tuition. So I had to go have been some unusual occurrences.
through the process of getting out of my
“We saw some interesting phenomena
lease at The Village and moving in with a happen this year that we haven’t seen belocal family I knew through church. It was fore,” Bader said. “One of them was that
a huge hassle.”
our early educaGilliam is one of
tion undergradmany who were anx- “It’s so hard to have money
uate
cohorts
ious to lose the schol- cut from students, but when
usually
have
arship so quickly.
long
waiting
Stephanie Ramage, there are people not worklists for accepalso a senior middle ing and people not eating, it’s
tance. Instead
grades
education
of us barely taphard to say one way or the
cohort major, lost
ping the waiting
$3,000 for her senior other what is more imporlist, this year
year as well.
we went farther
tant.”
“This was money
into our waiting
that (my husband and
lists to have our
I) spent on not only
Carol Bader, cohorts filled.”
school supplies but
Bader
beevery day living ex- Assistant dean and professor of lieves this is due
penses,” Ramage said.
Early Childhood Education to the scholar“Immediate changes
ship being sushad to be made in orpended,
that
der to make sure the
some students
bills were paid throughout the semester. I could not afford GCSU tuition without it.
have started babysitting on a regular basis Luckily, this is not evident in all areas; one
to make extra money in addition to the full exemption being the special needs cohort.
time job my husband has.”
Nevertheless, Bader considers the susThe GCSU John H. Lounsbury School pension of the Promise Scholarship detriof Education offices have been monitoring mental, not just because of the impact it
the effects of this scholarship being suspended on their current students, as well as
Education page 6
on students applying for the program. Car-

ing at the walk Ovarian Cancer affects
about her own
1 in 71 women a year.
fight with ovarian cancer.
In order to
get the word
out about their
event, SAO has
been advertising
in The Baldwin
Bulletin and on
the radio station
Z97.
According
to Abby Bryant, president of
SAO and senior
marketing major, advertising
will
increase
even more as the
walk nears via
fliers, Bobcat Vision, chalking, hanging banners and newspaper and radio ads.
“Our goal is to have at least 200 participants,
but we would love to have even more,” Bryant
said. “We want to raise as much money

Walk page 4

Future of
Beeson still
uncertain
Molly Holmes
Staff Writer
When the new Wellness Center opens its doors
at West Campus, anticipated for November 2011,
Beeson Hall may be out of a job. Beeson, located
on campus right next door to Arts & Sciences, is the
current location of Health Services where students
can receive medical care. Health Services will be
moving out of Beeson and into the West Campus
location when the Wellness Center is completed.
“We do look forward to (our new location),”
said Alice Loper, director of Health Services. “It
will be nice and clean and new.”
Some students are upset about the move, appreciating the convenience of Health Services’
Beeson location on campus.
“Beeson Hall does need updating but it’s a big
inconvenience that (Health Services) is moving to
The Village,” senior art major Ellen Conner said.
“Not everybody lives at the Village, but everyone
does come to Front Campus so that’s a logical
place to put it.”
Other students see the potential benefit of Health
Services moving out of Beeson Hall.
“The clinic being in Beeson is convenient, but
it’s an old building,” said junior accounting major
Jenna Wood. “I think the new center will probably
be better able to help students. Plus, it might be
cool to see what will go in Beeson now.”
When the move finally takes place, the lower
level of Beeson Hall will be empty until major
renovations can take place.
“We would leave the exterior (of Beeson Hall)
but anything on the interior would have to be demolished before anything else could be in there,”
Mark Bowen, project manager of plant operations,

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Zombies, humans battle on campus
Joseph Lindsey
Staff Writer
The zombie apocalypse has
commenced again this year on
the campus of GCSU. Humans
Vs. Zombies, a massive game
of tag played in the context of
humans surviving a zombie outbreak, began Aug. 30.
GCSU is one of the college
campuses around the country
that participates in Humans Vs.
Zombies. No matter where the
game is played, the rules are basically the same. The objective
of human players is to survive
as long as they can throughout
the week against the zombie
players. They may use foam dart
guns in defense. The objective
of the zombie players is to infect—tag—all the human players. Whichever team has more
players by the end of the week
wins.
Zach Barnard, a sophomore
at GCSU, is one of the main
people responsible for organizing the game this year. The
game has been played at GCSU
previously, but this year is the
first time it is starting with an
administration’s permission.

was temporarily shut down
until the people who were
running it last year went to
chat with the correct higherups,” Barnard said. “We
talked to both Public Safety
and University Housing beforehand this year to make
sure everyone was on the
same page.”
Dave Groseclose, director of Public Safety, doesn’t
seem too worried about the
game.
“If people use common
sense and play with the set
rules, we don’t really have
a problem with it,” Groseclose said.
The set rules include
as follows: the game can
only be played on campus
(downtown is prohibited),
Molly Holmes / Staff Photographer foam dart guns cannot be alJunior Sean Noah shows off his Zombie tered to look realistic, chasfighting skills with his Nerf gun in hand. ing through crosswalks is
Humans Vs. Zombies started again ear- not allowed and bandannas
lier this semester at GCSU.
must be worn by all players
so as to distinguish between
“It gained a lot of momentum
who is playing and who is
last year but it was never formal- not.
ly cleared with the Public SafeThis year several additions
ty Department and the school have been made to the game to
before they started playing. It make the experience more com-

pelling.
“I went on the HvZ website
and read about how they set specific missions for the players,”
Barnard said. “We had a mission
last week and it went relatively
well besides the fact it was almost impossible considering the
amount of zombies to humans,
but it was a whole lot of fun.”
Another new addition this
year is the “Zombie Kill of the
Week” similar to Zombieland.
“I didn’t read this on the website, but I thought it would be a
fun new way to get people to log
what we do when we play and
how much fun it is,” Barnard
said. “Also the winning video or
picture receives immunity from
being patient zero the next week
as well as an antidote for their
efforts.”
There are antidotes in the
game that can be administered
by an antidote holder once
the password on a note card is
read and the phrase shazzam is
said. The person is then human
again.
Sophomore Kalie Aiken,
another student who has been
instrumental in organizing the
game this year, also notes the

community
aspect of the
game.
“I would
definitely
say that the
game
has
brought students across
campus together. Players see each
other on campus and team up
to go “hunting” together. I made
friends playing HvZ last year
because my friends and I started
playing with people from other
halls. Nothing bonds people
faster than fighting off zombies
together or teaming up to attack
an unsuspecting group of humans.” Aiken said.
The first week’s game was
won by the zombies.
“The zombies absolutely
dominated,” Barnard said.
However, the second week’s
game was won by the humans.
Of course, Barnard’s not
the only one filled with enthusiasm about playing this

Zombies page 4

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New home
for old bell
remains
SGA focus
Connor Johnson
Staff Writer

Hilary Thompson / Staff Photographer
The top floors of Ennis Hall will be remodeled for use by the Art Department. Ennis Hall has been the home of The GIVE Center since 1997. It was
built in 1918 as a dormitory for women at Georgia State College for Women and was named after Sen. J. Howard Ennis.

Renovations in store for Ennis
Hilary Thompson
Staff Writer
Ennis Hall, the current location of The GIVE Center
and the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, has played host
to many different operations
throughout the years, and is in
the planning stages for yet another use: a new place for the
art department to call home.
Though it is not known at
this time where The GIVE
Center will be moving, it is certain that some of the buildings
belonging to the art department
will remain as such. Blackbridge, McIntosh and Grassman Halls will remain in art
department use, while Mayfair
will be renovated for a different
purpose.
Faced with such a large
change, some students, such
as junior art major Chynna
Murphy, seem to anticipate the
move with high spirits.
“I think that the move will
be beneficial because the fact is,
we need more space to breathe,”
Murphy said. “I’m hoping that
this new building will be able
to provide more ventilation for
the painting classes and more

studio space for independent changes - such as a new, larger
projects, and a more reliable main gallery space, adequate
air conditioner for the lecture studio space, and state-of-therooms.”
art classrooms
Sentimental
and offices - the
feelings arise “I think that the
facilities departfor some, such move will be benment has promas junior art
ised that Ennis
major Taylor eficial because the
Hall will mainEhramjian, but fact is we need
tain its historithe thought of
cal character.
superior equip- more space to
“Ennis Hall
ment may be breathe.”
is located in the
able to outNational Hisweigh such bittoric
District
ter sweetness.
Chynna Murphy, and the rehabil“I’ll
miss
will need
Junior art major itation
the old buildto preserve the
ing, but a new
historic integridarkroom with
ty of the builda/c would be
ing,” Assistant
great,” Ehramjian said.
Vice President for Facilities
Art department Chair Bill Ben Pratt said.
Fisher has been working closeOnce begun, the renovations
ly with the upper administra- are expected to take a tentative
tion and facilities department, three years, after which the art
discussing floor plans, space department will be able to call
usage, facility needs and pro- this historical building home.
jection for growth.
Built in 1918, and dedi“Every step of the way, the cated in 1920 in honor of Sen.
upper administration has fully J. Howard Ennis, Ennis Hall
supported the art department’s was originally a dormitory for
assessment of facility needs,” the women, or “Jessies,” of
Fisher said.
the Georgia State College for
Regardless
of
modern Women. Ennis Hall was con-

sidered one of the better dormitories and, in an attempt to
preserve fairness amongst all
four classes, housed primarily
seniors.
During World War II, GSCW
was one of four colleges chosen to serve as housing for the
Navy’s Women Appointed for
Voluntary Emergency Service.
Ennis Hall’s Jessie inhabitants
were shunted aside and made to
live in other dormitories to make
way for the W.A.V.E.S. Ennis
not only served as a dormitory
for the W.A.V.E.S., but in order
to train the women for wartime
at sea, was treated exactly like
a ship, and was dubbed the
U.S.S. Ennis. In May 1945, the
last W.A.V.E. trainees graduated from GSCW’s naval training
school, returning the dormitory
to Jessie use.
The construction of Napier
Hall dormitory in 1972 alleviated the college’s lack of
academic space, and allowed
for classes to be held in Ennis
and Terrell Halls. In the 1980s
Ennis Hall housed the nursing program and the psychology department, becoming the
home of The GIVE Center in
1997.

In 2008, the Student Government Association
began a project to renovate a Navy bell and find it
a spot on campus.
Given to the University by the curator of the
Navy in 1989, GCSU was unable to find a permanent spot for it. For
a period of time, the History of the
bell was placed within
the Centennial Center Navy bell
on a cart that was built
The Navy bell was
specifically for the bell. given to the university
In 1990, the bell had to by the Curator of the
be taken down when United States Navy in
the school joined the 1989.
Peach Belt Conference,
The bell was then
which prohibits the housed in the Centenuse of artificial noisenial Center on a cart
makers during athletic
events. According to that was built speciﬁthe GCSU website, cally for the bell and
the bell can now be rung to support the
found in the basement then-Georgia College
of Beeson Hall, a place Colonials basketball
that is now allegedly team.
The bell was placed
condemned and filled
with “exposed pipes in storage in 1990
because the school
and torn carpet.”
The project, initiated joined the Peach Belt
by SGA President Zach Conference, which
Mullins, is planned to prohibits artiﬁcial
build the bell tower noisemakers during
next to the Centennial athletic events.
Center.
“We began this project back during the summer of my sophomore year in 2008,” Mullins said.
“SGA is the leader of the project. It’s something
we have been pushing toward since then and that
we are starting to make some headway with.”
Completely donation driven, SGA is currently
working to raise money for the bell project. Bricks
can be purchased for $250 to be placed at the base
of the tower, as can plaques for $1,000. Monetary
donations can also be made to go toward the project.
Dawn Parker, a freshman mass communication
major, approves of the idea of the bell tower.
“I feel that having a bell to ring after sporting
events on campus would be beneficial in raising
school pride,” Parker said.
Senator and mass communication major Natalie Sorto feels similarly.
“We currently don’t have anything like this
on campus,” Sorto said. “It would definitely help
raise student/ player morale, which is something
GCSU has been trying to do for the past few
years.”
According to Mullins, the bell tower will hopefully be completed by fall of the upcoming year.
Whether enough funding will have been raised by
then is still to be determined. For more information on the bell tower or to make a donation, log
on to www.gcsu.edu/belltower.

A day in the life of a
Digital Measures improves
GCSU education major current campus procedures
Matt Chambers
Senior Reporter
The black iHome begins sounding its
booming cry. It’s 6:25 a.m. Most college students never see this hour unless
they’re just now getting home, but for
senior early childhood education major
Yuka Takemoto, this is normal.
After a quick
shower she’s out the
door wearing what
she calls “placement
clothes”—khaki
capris, a nice blouse
and
comfortable
shoes. Shoe choice
is essential for those
days when you have
to chase kids around Yuka Takemoto
the classroom. 6:50
a.m. and she’s out the
door.
Yuka then carpools with three other
education majors 17.8 miles to Gray Elementary School. Eating her breakfast
with coffee along the drive, she starts her
way like many other teachers do—except
she’s still a student.
“At first I was a undecided (major), and
then I tried education for a year and it was
a lot of work,” she says. “So I switched
to psychology, but after a semester I realized ‘I miss those kids, I really miss those
kids,’ so I switched back.”
Switching to an education major isn’t
as simple as just filling out the paper
work. Becoming an education major is a
feat unto itself. After applying in the fall
of sophomore year, hopeful applicants
have to endure an interview and grueling

waiting period before finding out their
fate.
“I think 80 applied, but only 39 got in
to the cohort,” Yuka recalls. “If I didn’t
get into the cohort, it would have been a
whole year of nothing; I was going to add
a music minor.”
As a junior Yuka shuffled to four different placement schools, including one
all the way in Macon, to help out. This
year she is solely dedicated to Mrs. Melissa Knight’s kindergarten class at least
three days of the week.
“I didn’t really like it last year because
I always felt like I was just an extra person,” she says. “Being with the class (this
year), I feel like I am a part of the class. I
am a teacher for that class and the parents
see it that way too.”
The class of 21 5 and 6 year olds officially starts at 8:20 a.m., but the students
begin to stagger in about the same time
Mrs. Stacey Jones, the paraprofessional
for the class, does—7:50 a.m.
For the next half hour Mrs. Jones herds
students into their seats while collecting
lunch money and notes from parents. After that Ms. Takemoto, as the kids call
her, takes over for calendar time. The kids
know the routine by now.
“There’s a song with (calendar time)
that they know, but if I was to ask what
the fourth month is they wouldn’t have
a clue,” she admits. “Teaching is not as
easy as it seems.”
Following calendar time, the class
moves to animated literacy, the modern
name for learning the alphabet.

Teaching page 6

Brittany Henderson
Staff Writer
According to DigitalMeasures.com, over 1,500 universities and schools across the
world are using Digital Measures, an online software program designed to manage and
record faculty’s research, productivity and accreditation.
Last year, discussion on
implementing
information
management tools began. After much research, on July 15
the GCSU Office of Academic
Affairs staff introduced Digital Measures’ software, ActivityInsight, to the deans, directors, department chairs and
coordinators across campus.
ActivityInsight specifically
monitors online faculty research and documents without
the OAA asking faculty to collect, organize and report for
legislators or accrediting education boards.
Sandra Jordan, provost and
vice president of Academic
Affairs, manages the usage
and execution of Digital Measures.
“My expectation is that
this tool will become second
nature to the campus,” Jordan
said.
Currently most of GCSU
faculty’s research is on computer files, which can create

room for error for recording faculty records with the hopes
and reporting their research. of template approval by midAs a result, this could choke year.
a faculty’s accreditation and
“The Office of Academic
could affect research grants Affairs will do the initial data
for departments. Incomplete load which will save facprograms could portray an ulty a lot of time and effort.
inaccurate
Once Digital
review
of
Measures
is
GCSU facul- “We now will have
implemented,
ty work thus a tool we need to
faculty will be
demeaning
responsible for
the stature make it easier for
entering their
of a GCSU us to capture that
own informaeducation.
tion,” Jordan
“ T h i s information and tell
said.
system will your story more acIn addition,
help us more curately, effectively
departments’
accurately
schedules are
collect in- and efficiently.”
often full of
formation
classes
and
related
to
community inSandra Jordan, teraction somefaculty work
and to then Provost, vice president times affecting
manage and
amount of
of Academic Affairs the
arrange that
time they can
information
put into their
to complete
research.
reports and
“Our facmanage accreditation require- ulty work hard, and this camments with greater ease,” Jor- pus is doing some incredible
dan said. “This will allow us to things. We now will have a
improve accuracy, improve ef- tool we need to make it easier
ficiency and with less disrup- for us to capture that information to departmental offices.”
tion and tell your story more
Although implementing the accurately, effectively and efsoftware is predicted to con- ficiently,” Jordan said. “In that
tinue throughout the year, the sense, the students, faculty
OAA will provide proper tem- and the entire university are
plates on Digital Measures for the beneficiaries.”

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The new recycling bins that will be placed in the entrances to 33 buildings on campus. By recycling, GCSU could save an estimated $98,735 according to the 2006
waste audit.

These groups would take the
recyclable materials from their adopted bin and take it to the facility.
There will be two facilities, one
on Central Campus located by the
Centennial Center and one on West
Campus behind Building 4 at The
Village. They will be open 20 hours
a week. The Student Activities Center has volunteered its golf cart to
help transport the materials.
Advanced Waste will then retrieve the recyclable materials and
weigh them each month to know
how much is accrued. A check will
be mailed back to GCSU for the
money earned from the materials.
“I wish people would do it because it’s the right thing to do, but
we still have to convince people that
it’s efficient and worth the effort,”
Oetter said.
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as possible for (the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance).”
In order to achieve this
goal, all SAO members are
required to recruit a number of walkers, but Bryant
is hoping that “once one
friend signs up, it will be
contagious.”
SAO sister and senior
chemistry major Amanda
Vitello’s
responsibilities
include being in charge of

registration, checking people in and out at the event,
helping coordinate, and going around to different businesses to try and find sponsors for the walk.
Vitello has been a member of SAO for four years,
so she has had the opportunity to watch the Ovarian
Cancer Walk progress from
year to year. She believes
the walk will be much better this year compared to
past years.
“The coordinator this
year is really organized,”
Vitello said. “(Harris) started planning for the event in
the summer as opposed to at

the beginning of the semester. She is really passionate
about it.”
All of the SAO members
are eager to give the GCSU
and Milledgeville community the opportunity to learn
more about ovarian cancer
as well as have the chance
to support the OCNA.
“Ovarian Cancer Awareness is something that we as
a sisterhood are very passionate about,” Bryant said. “The
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance is a rapidly growing
organization, as is Sigma
Alpha Omega, which is one
of the many reasons we go
hand-in-hand so well.”

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players seems to share the
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“I’ve always played games,”
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the dark, even a virtual dark,
was about as good as it got,”
Barnard said. “Why wouldn’t
I want to bring that into the
real world?”
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The humans have plenty
more chances to overcome
the zombie hordes in the oncoming weeks. The game is
expected to continue throughout the year.
“Growing up, football
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Oetter is hopeful eventually
student hourly workers can take
the place of some of the volunteer
groups, but for the time being logistics are a work in progress.
“Down the road I certainly hope
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It’s been six months since Milledgeville
and GCSU became the center of the sports
universe on an early Friday morning downtown. On March 5, Milledgeville police announced they were investigating Pittsburgh
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who
had already been in a civil suit for a sexual
assault, for an unrelated sexual assault of a
20-year-old female GCSU student at the Capital City nightclub.
But now that time has passed, the school
and community appear to be looking long past
that eventful night.
“It didn’t involve me, and it’s all in the
past,” junior early childhood education major
Jamie Holliday said.
Other students share her opinion.
“It’s not important anymore,” junior nursing major Jenny Dunphy added. “I was an
outsider to it, and I stayed on the outside.”
The GCSU female victim told police on
March 5 that Roethlisberger, an All-Pro, Super
Bowl-winning quarterback, had been drinking with her at several downtown establishments and had later attempted to assault her
in a women’s restroom of the V.I.P. section in
Capitol City. Roethlisberger stated to police
that he and the accuser had contact that was
not consummated, and she injured her head
after falling while trying to get away.

After a month-long investigation, Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorney Fred Bright announced that charges would not be brought
against Roethlisberger. Bright had also received a letter from the accuser and her family that they did not wish to press charges any
longer, but also, that she was not recanting her
accusation.
Despite being cleared of the charges, Roethlisberger has suffered a significant loss to
his public image and has been punished by
the National Football League as well, being
suspended six games without pay on April 21
by Commissioner Roger Goodell for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. That
suspension was later reduced to four games by
the league. In addition he lost many partnerships with businesses in the Pittsburgh area.
Senior management major Eric Connolly
said that the issue should no longer be of concern to the Milledgeville community.
“I really don’t care for it anymore,” Connolly said. “The situation happened back in
March, and (Roethlisberger) has been punished enough by the NFL and by the social
backlash caused by the event.”
“I think the school took appropriate measures to handling the situation,” Connolly
added. “With the help of the Milledgeville police, they were able to conceal the identity of
the girl and protect her.”

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little harder for students living offcampus.
Students living in houses offcampus within city limits can call
Sinclair Disposal and request a recycling bin for biweekly pickup.
Students living in off-campus apartment complexes that do not provide
recycling or houses outside city
limits, must fend for themselves.
The recycling centers in Baldwin
County are closed without an access
card, which can cost up to $160.

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According to the 2006 audit,
nearly $41,814 could be earned from
selling all of the recyclable materials. In addition, $56,921 would be
saved on the price of waste hauling,
totaling $98,735 in savings.
This would offset the $60,000
cost of the recycling program, with
GCSU profiting approximately
$38,735 if the figures were applied
this year. This may not be the case,
however, as these numbers are based
on 100 percent of recyclable materials being recycled.
“In essence, this program could
actually be a revenue generating
source for the university if we recycle enough,” Mullins said. “The
success of this program lies with the
students recycling.”
Depending on student participation, the program is expected to
expand in the next few years to include more bins and more recycling
options.

Once the bins are placed in each
of the locations, students, faculty
and staff will be responsible for depositing the materials correctly. All
beverage containers must be emptied and the lids removed, and any
food must be disposed of prior to
recycling the containers.
“In the residence halls we’re going to have the standard recycling
bins on campus,” Mullins said.
“We’ll also be advertising the transfer station hours when residents can
actually go and deposit their own
recycling.”
Currently, SGA is looking for interested campus groups and organizations to volunteer their services to
empty one or more bins about once
a week. The groups will receive
service hours that can be tracked
through The GIVE Center.
“It’s actually pretty fun once you
get into it, once you get over the
sticky stuff,” Oetter said. “Just leave
the food, food residue and beverages out of the recycling bins and it’ll
go fine.

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school groups involved because it
would be really neat to turn this into
a more profitable venture,” Oetter
said. “And we’ve left options for
that down the road. Once we get a
grip on what we’re capable of doing, maybe we can make more money off of it.”
Brittain expects the Environmental Science Club to do another waste
audit after the program takes off
to see how it is affecting GCSU’s
waste disposal.
“People would see it,” Brittain
said. “They would see all this trash
and people in hazmat suits with
gloves going through everything.
It’s eye catching and gets people
talking.
Last year GCSU competed in RecycleMania, a national competition
to track the amount of recycling collected in colleges and universities.
RecycleMania is a 10 week competition that takes place from January
to March. Last year Oetter and the
Environmental Club collected all
the recycling that was tallied for the
competition placing GCSU sixth in
the state out of six competitors. With
the newly instated campus-wide recycling program, Oetter and Brittain
hope to improve in the competition
this year.
Oetter thinks the next step for
GCSU is composting. Composting
would entail combining all organic
material from the residence halls
and Sodexo with old grass chippings, old pine-straw and chipped
up limbs to create a healthy compost
to reuse on campus.
“That will save us a lot of money
on our flower beds and plant materials,” Oetter said. “We already have
the most beautiful campus in the
state anyway. This will just be a way
that everybody can contribute.”

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ident Zach Mullins said. “I think
it’s something that should have happened a long time ago. I’m certainly
glad that it’s happening now.”
Jeff Brittain, senior environmental science major and Environmental Science Club president, has
been involved in recycling drives on
campus for the past few years.
“It’s about time,” Brittain said,
“It’s something that the students
have been wanting for a long time
coming now, this (program) is basically the culmination of everything.”

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“You just start by recycling what
you can and you keep building it.
Eventually it turns into its own enterprise, and it generates revenue,”
Oetter said. “It makes people feel
good. It’s the right thing to do. It
sells the image of your university
to the outside world. It provides opportunities for students, for research
and for employment.”
But, recycling saves more than
money.
“It saves so much energy too,”
Oetter said. “Every time you recycle an aluminum can, you’ve just
saved 95 percent of the energy that
was used to make that can in the first
place.”

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After nearly two
years of debate and
money
invested,
the smoking ban on
campus went into
action Aug. 1. Several
strategically
placed smoking stations have been built
around the campus to
provide cleaner air
for the student body.
“So far I have
seen a pretty good
response to it,” Zach
Mullins,
Student
Government Association president, said.
“The main issue we
were trying to address
was walking down
campus and having
to walk through a
cloud of smoke to get
to your classroom.
Because of the new
smoking areas I think
that has drastically
reduced the issue and
has even made it go
away.”
Although the ban
is in congruence
with other college
campuses
around
the country, GCSU
students and faculty
express mixed emotions about the new
smoking shelters.
“All in all, I think
it is a decent idea
because I would not
like the smokers being right outside of
the (Arts & Science)
doors when people
are walking out,” junior pre-engineering
major Morris Jones
said.
At the same time,
other students realize what problems
could arise from the
new rules. Hannah
Vaughn, a sophomore English major,
tends to smoke at the

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Since the Smoking Ban went into effect, designated smoking areas now have
shelters where individuals can smoke. These shelters are spread throughout
campus, mainly in parking lots or in lesser populated areas.

station near Bell Hall
and the A&S building.
“The smoking stations are counter-intuitive,” Vaughn said.
“Now the smokers
are all slammed in
the middle of walkways rather than before when we could
go off to ourselves
and not be in anyone’s way.”
Vaughn feels that
the stations like the
one near Bell Hall is
not conveniently located for the majority
of smoking students
on campus.
“For the people who are walking through Front
Campus that want
to smoke, they will
have to go out of their
way,” Vaughn said.
Despite the disapproval of the students and faculty that
smoke, members of
the sociology department believe it is an
issue that will eventually smolder out.

Stephanie
McClure, assistant professor of sociology,
sees past the situation
at GCSU, but looks
at the overlying trend
of smoking bans on
college campuses.
“The space where
people are allowed
to smoke has gotten
smaller and smaller
over time,” McClure
said. “It has to do
with a radical change
in the definition of
what society views as
a deviant behavior.”
The act of smoking socially, which
used to be acceptable
in the workplace,
restaurants and everyday situations, has
slowly been forced
out in a nationwide
non-smoking trend.
Bradley Koch, assistant professor of
sociology, has taught
at GCSU for a year
and has noticed the
rate of progression
in GCSU’s rules on
smoking compared
to other colleges.

“In my new transition here, it was
shocking to me that
the on-campus smoking issue was not yet
addressed,”
Koch
said. “Every school I
had been before had
resolved the issue
five to seven years
ago. The same kind
of problems came
out of it, but I have
found that those tensions and issues did
go away. The smokers get used to it.”
In the beginning
stages of changing
smoking policy, the
affected population
may find objections,
but in the end, the situation will sort itself
out over time.
“This is the way
society works together in how we negotiate space,” Robin
Harris, associate professor in government
and sociology, said.
“It is all about where
one person’s rights
end and another person’s rights begin.”

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Responsibilities that come with having a pet are knowing the county’s leash laws, taking the animal to get
proper vaccinations, providing food and water and cleaning up after the animal in public.

Canine responsibility
Lessons to learn for owner, pet harmony
Madalyn Shores
Staff Writer
Dogs are highly populated
throughout the GCSU campus, and it is important for
students to know the responsibilities and the laws that
pertain to having a new best
friend.
Some of the responsibilities of owning a pet include
being up-to-date with shots
and other vaccines, being
able to feed the pet and making sure it has water to drink
on a daily basis, and knowing
whether the owner can even
afford the long-term payments of a dog.
Time is another factor that
has a big influence on whether or not someone should
adopt a dog. House training
takes time and patience, and a
college schedule may not be
fitting for the responsibility.
More responsibilities that
come with having a dog are

knowing the leash laws and
other ordinances that are in
Milledgeville and Baldwin
County. When taking a dog on
a walk, a leash must be used
unless the owner and dog are
in a proper enclosed area.
According to the Baldwin
County leash laws, an animal
must be on a leash or lead line
at all times in a county-owned
park, boat launch or historic
site unless the area is specifically marked appropriate for
“off-leash roaming.” In these
areas, “animal owners or custodians must immediately
and properly dispose of waste
deposited by the animal.”
Greg Hill, manager of the
Baldwin County Animal Control, says that all of the eight
dogs they have at the shelter
were found without tags and
leashes.
“If you have your dog off
a leash make sure it is supervised, but you really should
never let your dog run loose,”

said Hill.
In addition, while in these
areas animal owners or custodians “must have accessible
proof of current rabies vaccination for their animal.”
It is also prohibited for animals other than Seeing Eye
dogs to be in areas marked as
restricted for animals.
If someone reports a dog
off a leash and wandering the
streets, it will be impounded
and the owner will have to
pay a fine. A rabies shot is
needed at least once a year for
every type of dog. The vets
supply a tag to go on a dog’s
collar with proof that the dog
has had a rabies vaccination
for that particular year.
Pets are not allowed in
the residence halls or at The
Village. Policies vary from
apartments and houses so be
sure to check your landlord’s
policies to know what is allowed.

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had on the students’ families, but also
the effect it has on their decision to become a teacher.
“This is at a time when students are trying to decide whether to go into schools.
They see what’s happening in colleges
and they see what’s happening to public
schools and they see the teachers having
to take furlough days…and they are saying, ‘is this really what I want to do?’ I
think this is going to have a very negative
impact down the road, especially when
our economy turns around and the older
teachers retire,” Bader said. “There won’t
be enough teachers in the pipeline to teach
the children.”
This is a major concern for education
programs as the Promise Scholarship is
suspended. Students and professors alike
know its incentive was critical for influencing undergraduates to become teachers. Bader pointed out that the Master of
Arts and Teaching in Math and Science
Program is not growing as quickly as they
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said. “Everyone else (in the
building) would have to move
out. It would be a major renovation.”
Funding for the project has
not yet been secured, but will
be acquired through general
obligation bonds according
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lations Manager
for WGUR.
A keynote address
from Chris Coates,
attorney for the U.S.
Department of Justice Civil Rights Di-

tal Implementation Program
page on the GCSU Web site.
“We are doing preliminary
studies to see about the feasibility of the College of Education moving into Beeson,”
Bowen said. “We plan to take
into consideration the Early
College’s needs as well, but
nothing is set in concrete.”
Bowen also mentioned
that plans for the continuation
of the current Wellness Depot
located on West Greene Street

vision, wrapped
up the week’s
events Sept. 16 at
7 p.m. in the A&S
Auditorium. The
subject of the discussion was about the
interpretation of the
Constitution versus
the original text.
“Last year we focused on a different
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social perks of being actively involved in a fraternity.
Like Parton, junior political science major Jonathan
Savitske has high hopes and
expectations for the future
chapter of the fraternity.
“We would love to rush
at least 20 men this coming
spring,” Savitske said.
The recruitment process
for Theta Chi will be a new
experience for all members

have not been finalized, but
offices have been included
in the Center’s construction
plans that will satisfy the
needs of the services currently being offered at the Depot.
“We discussed (the move
from Beeson) at length before
the decision was made,” Loper said. “I think it’s just going
to be a learning curve. Students will have to plan more
time to get out there.”

right each day and
worked with local
speakers. This year,
we are focusing on
the way in which the
Constitution is related to critical issues
in American society,”
Kaufman said. “Our
speakers
represent
the political, educational, legal and creative arenas and come

of the fraternity.
“The recruitment process
will be very exciting,” said
senior management and management systems information
major Matt Deraney. “Theta
Chi hopes to add men that are
enthusiastic in helping build
a strong foundation that will
grow our fraternity for many
years to come.”
The founders of Theta
Chi are also in the process of
planning retreats and philanthropic projects for its members to participate in.
“We haven’t planned much
philanthropy yet, but we have

from Atlanta and New
York City.”
The law establishing the holiday,
formerly known as
Citizenship Day, was
passed in 2004. Educational organizations
that receive federal
funding are encouraged to celebrate
Constitution Day.

a lot of projects lined up for
the upcoming year,” Parton
said.
Although
philanthropy
projects are still in the works,
Theta Chi has been successful
in generating interest for the
fraternity by hosting weekly
hangouts, cookouts and socials with various sororities
on campus.
Most important, however,
the men of Theta Chi hope to
stand out from other Greek
organizations on campus in
more ways than one.
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from other fraternities on

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safety in this
area.”
The university
will silently test the
sirens periodically.
The tests will be silent so the community is not desensitized to the alarm.
However, they will
perform two audible tests every
year to make sure
that the system as
a whole is working
correctly. GCSU

hopes to perform
one audible test
soon since September is National Preparedness Month.
“Our university
places a strong emphasis on safety.
It is one of the top
priorities,” Gaines
said.
The
community as a whole
will be informed of
this addition. The
GCSU Web site
will provide a link
allowing anyone to
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“They learn a story and
sound behind each letter,
the first letter was ‘p, Paulie Panda,’” Yuka explains.
“This weeks will be (the
letters) ‘m’ and ‘o’ so then
they can make words like
pop and mom.”
Next comes exploratories, or—for Yuka—a
break. Then there’s a small
amount of time for a topic
the teachers want to cover
before lunch.
11:45 a.m. the kids go
out for recess, except on
Thursdays when they have
gym. After recess the seri-

campus because it offers
gentlemen the opportunity to
be a part of something new,”
Deraney said. “Not many
men get the chance to be a
founding father.”
The founding fathers of
the fraternity want to leave
their mark on GCSU’s campus as a group of men who
are independent and unique.
“I want Theta Chi to leave
the impression that we do not
fall into the normal mold.
Not to say that other fraternities are bad, but I see Theta
Chi separating itself and being something different and

variables.
Overall, the little time given to students to adjust to provide funding for the
fall semester left some unpleasant feelings toward the Georgia government.
“I think that Governor Perdue made a
horrible decision in cutting the Promise
Scholarship,” Ramage said. “For a state
that so desperately needs quality education, it appears that our leaders care nothing about making it easier on upcoming
teachers. Teaching is notoriously an underpaid career, and by offering this scholarship it helped to alleviate the burden of
student loans that many teachers are left
with upon graduation.”
Others note the situation with more
sympathy for the government, recognizing that this is a hard time for every department, not just education.
“It’s so hard to have money cut from
students, but when there are people not
working and people not eating, it’s hard
to say one way or the other what is more
important,” Bader said. “We are just in really tough economic times. But if I was
in the state government situation I don’t
know what I would do. Those of us in
education believe that education is so,
so important. It’s hard to see any money
taken from them.”

be sounded in each
situation. This website is not currently
up and running,
but will be soon.
The web address
is www.gcsu.edu/
emergency.
Some students,
such as senior art
major
Mallory
Lewis, have mixed
feelings about this
project.
“I understand the
need for a warning,
but it’s too much,”
Lewis said. “It’s
going to frighten
people.”

ous learning begins. 12:15
p.m., math. Followed by
social studies or science at
1:15 p.m.
To end the day, the class
gets a 30-minute snack
time at 2 p.m. before heading off to meet their parents or bus drivers for the
trip home.
After helping out with
bus duty, ensuring all the
kids get on the right bus,
Yuka ends up heading back
to Milledgeville around
3:50 p.m. with her fellow
cohort members in the car
swapping their battle stories from the day.
When she gets back
home, she kicks off her
shoes and pulls off the

great,” Parton said.
Theta Chi also aims to emphasize important values like
academic excellence, strong
leadership, community service and involvement on
campus.
Although the Theta Chi interest group formed less than
a year ago, its members are
deeply dedicated and serious
about creating a successful
and lasting legacy of brotherhood at GCSU.
“I am proud to start something new and bigger than
myself,” Savitske said. “I
hope to have an impact on

These
sirens
were installed by
McCord Communications and cost
approximately
$96,000.
Students, including senior business major Stuart
Caughman, think
the project should
have been better
thought out.
“Safety is important, but other methods should have
been considered before spending this
amount of money,”
Caughman said.

golden magnetic name tag.
“Apparently (nametags)
can’t have a pin anymore
because some kid stabbed
his teacher with it,” she explains.
Her school day is finished, but now the real
schoolwork begins. The
work of a student teacher
is never over, but Yuka
wouldn’t trade the stress
and workload for anything.
“They’re germy kids,
but the best part is when
you get those hugs and
they say ‘I missed you,’”
she says with a smile. “I
guess you never really realize the impact you have
on them.”

the lives of others long after
I graduate.”
Theta Chi acknowledges
that GCSU is the primary
reason for the formation and
success of the up-and-coming
fraternity.
“Our maxim is alma mater
first, Theta Chi for alma mater,” Parton said. “If it wasn’t
for GCSU, Theta Chi would
never be here in the first place.
I think that most people will
see this and realize what this
fraternity is all about.”
Editor’s
note:
Jonathan
Savitske is a columnist for The
Colonnade.

reported seeing a S.N.A.P. officer that was drunk giving rides downtown to students, according
to Public Safety. There was not a S.N.A.P. officer matching the description on duty that night.
Officer Ransom, who was off duty and monitoring GCSU traffic, advised he had seen the subjects earlier and gave an address on Jefferson Street as to where they lived. Contact was made
with two males, who stated they had rented the gold cart in their yard from Golf Cart City. Both
subjects denied driving the golf cart. Both subjects were told to not bring the golf cart back on
campus and were trespassed from all GCSU property.

September 9 at 9:51 p.m. A female reported that her ex-boyfriend had come to Milledgeville from Alpharetta and knocked on her
door for 10-15 minutes at her dorm room and
then left the area, according to Public Safety.
Waugh stated that the male had texted her and
stated he had been involved in a traffic accident. Sgt. Reonas heard Milledgeville PD
working an accident at Franklin and Liberty
streets and went to the area. Contact was made
with the male, who stated he didn’t think he
had done anything wrong. He was trespassed
from all GCSU property indefinitely and told
not to have contact with Waugh.

Pinestraw punch
September 9 at 1:22 a.m. Sgt. Reonas was
dispatched to Wells Hall in reference to an intoxicated student, according to Public Safety.
When Sgt. Reonas arrived on scene he observed a female lying face down in some pine
straw next to the front entrance to Wells Hall.
When she was rolled over, she remained unconscious, but was breathing normally. EMS
responded and transported her to Oconee Regional Medical Center for treatment. She was
issued a citation for Underage Possession of
Alcohol and when tested on the breathalyzer
test right before transport, registered .307.
The case has been turned over to the Student
Judicial Board.

Grain Guzzler
September 9 at 2:18 a.m. Sgt. Reonas
was dispatched to Sanford Hall in reference
to an intoxicated student, according to Public
Safety. Contact was made with a male who
had drunk seven or eight shots of grain alcohol earlier and had vomited. He had slightly
slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet
and registered .171 on the breathalyzer test.
He was arrested and transported to Milledgeville PD and charged with Underage Possession of Alcohol. The case has been turned
over to the Student Judicial Board.

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.

September 7 at 11:44 p.m. Officer Ransom
was dispatched to the area of Wayne and
Greene streets in reference to a male stealing a banner from a sorority social, according to Public Safety. Contact was made with
the male who was under 21 years of age and
had the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming
from his person. The male was arrested and
transported to Milledgeville PD and charged
with Underage Possession of Alcohol.

If you know of a GCSU or community event open to all students, please let us
know. Send submissions including the date, time, event name and description to
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Beyond the Columns
When, Where

Action

What it means

September 14
Tehran, Iran

Iranian authorities released American Sarah
Shourd, one of the
three American hikers
who allegedly crossed
the border into Iran.

After 14 months in Tehran prison
and $500,000 bail, Shourd has
been reunited with her family.
However, she is now seperated
from her fiance, Shane Bauer, and
friend, Josh Fattal who remain in
prison for illegally crossing the
border from Iraq into Iran and
accusations of espionage.

The lawsuit alleges that his company Sage Development failed
to properly maintain buildings
and apartments it owns in New
Jersey. According to the lawsuit
filing the city responded to at
least 30 tenant complaints about
health and safety concerns.

September 15
France

Fance passes bill to
ban the full veils such
as the niquab and
burka.

After a six month grace period,
the bill, passed by the Senate
246 to 1, banning full veils will
become effective. The bill allows
for a fine of €150 for any woman
who wears a face-covering veil
in public, and a one-year jail
sentence and €15,000 fine for
anyone forcing a woman to cover
her face. Justice minister Michèle
Alliot-Marie said the motivation for the ban was not security
or religion, but “respect for our
republican principles.” The
Constitutional Council will most
likely assess the legality of the
ban and remains the bill’s main
obstacle to full enactment.

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Above: Drake Simon / Senior Photographer
Below: Matt Chambers / Staff Photographer
Above: A spray painted woman welcomes visitors to the bathroom in Mayfair Hall. There is also art along the walls of Mayfair.
Below: A cryptic symbol rests on the bathroom stall wall on the
third floor of Herty Hall.

The First Amendment is pretty awesome. It gives us the
right to freedom of religion, the right to assemble and to
petition the government. Most importantly (at least to this
column) it gives us the freedom of speech and of the press.
Without freedom of the press, you would not be reading
this newspaper. This week has been Constitution Week and
all week GCSU has been celebrating the Constitution and
all the freedoms we as Americans automatically have.
While on campus this week we began to notice how
much graffiti there is on campus. Of course, it’s mainly in
the bathroom stalls, but that’s not the only place. Graffiti
gets a rep. It’s the ultimate form of freedom of speech. Of
course, vandalism of public property is not good, but we’re
all for the idea behind graffiti just not the actual act.
Being able to express yourself in paint, pencil or pen
is fantastic. Not everyone’s an artist that can do this, but
simply writing something can be just as powerful as spray
painting an awesome piece. Everyone has the power to create and express inside themselves.
Every now and then GCSU goes and paints over the
bathroom graffiti, covering up the speech. GCSU completely has the right to paint over graffiti, after all it is
vandalism to public property. Covering up the graffiti does
take time and money on the university’s part. We would
much rather that money be spent on other things.
Now listen up graffiti artists and non-artists. The
pornographic, rude and offensive graffiti has got to stop.
To be fair, there’s not that much of it, but the little there
is speaks volumes. The art of expression should not all be
about male anatomy parts or putting people down. Instead,
it should be about creating a dialogue and discussion of
topics, even if it’s on a bathroom wall.
There used to be graffiti that started a discussion about
the existence of a higher power. These topics are important
and if the only way people are comfortable talking about
them is by writing things down then there should be a dedicated place on campus for students to get all their inside
expressions out.
Some colleges and universities have places dedicated
specifically to free speech. Sure GCSU has a freedom of
speech circle, but that’s a long way away from having
a freedom of speech wall. Having a place where people
can go to graffiti and not vandalize would do nothing but
benefit the campus and the community. Having a dedicated
place would also cut down on bathroom graffiti and stop
the repainting of stalls. It’s a win-win for everyone.

Drake Simons / Senior Photographer
Above: A marijuana leaf with the words “Smoke weed everyday” next to it is on the wall of the third floor bathroom in
Arts & Sciences.
Below: An example of the type of graffiti that is not beneficial.
Putting people down is not good discussion.

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A confederate flag with the words “Southern Pride” with pride
scratched out and the word “ignorance” written next to it is
also in the third floor bathroom in Arts & Sciences.

Politicians missing the target
If you’ve been listening to the president’s words lately, you’ve been hearing
a certain name come up much more than
usual. It’s the name of a rather tan congressman from Ohio that until recently
was very little known. This congressman would be none other than House
Minority Leader John Boehner. The
White House and other democrats have
recently seized on the man that could
soon become Speaker of the House.
They are using his name seemingly at
every chance they get to make sure that
voters see a difference between them
and what the other side has to offer. And
even though they’re at least taking the
attention off of them by doing this, it’s
really not going to have much traction
for November.
The problem that this strategy has is
that there aren’t many who know who

Ian
Bridgeforth
John Boehner is. These races have to be
localized and while both Republicans
and Democrats want to nationalize the
race, I don’t think it’s going to work.
In August the National Republican
Congressional Committee put together
robo-calls to Georgia’s 8th Congressional District, trying to tie the current
Congressman Jim Marshall to New York
Congressman Charlie Rangel, who faces
a slew of ethics charges. But outside the
beltway and Rangel’s district, not many
people know who he even is. Sure it gets

the base happy and hurts the democrats’
brand overall, but to the average voter
it really doesn’t mean much. This was
seen in the special election for the 12th
Congressional District of Pennsylvania
with Mark Critz and Tim Burns. Critz
kept the race local, while Burns wanted to make everything about President
Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
In the end, Critz pulled off a win by
seven points.
You would think the leaders on both
sides would see these types of things
and understand what they need to do to
win, but somehow they keep firing in the
wrong direction when the target is right
in front of them.
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Satire: Village construction has benefits
Dear Village Residents,
I have been hearing nothing but
complaining on the shuttle for the past
three days about the construction on
West Campus, and I think everyone
needs to cheer up and look positively
at the situation. Yes parking has been
complicated and a large portion of
prime real estate has been taken away,
but in return there is a huge pile of dirt
for our recreation.
As children, everyone enjoyed
playing in the dirt, unless you were
rich and could afford toys. Everyone
made mud pies, painted themselves
in earthen black face and launched attacks on the opposite sex. It was quite
enjoyable, but sadly we cannot recreate these memories because higher
education informed us such acts were
sexist, racist and unsanitary.
However, I have taken the liberty of
utilizing the dirt mound in a constructive manner, and I’m more than happy
to pass this knowledge onto you. First,
one must actually enter the construction zone, which is made easier if you
have a pet hippogriff. For those of us
without mythical pets, just use the
standard 18-inch bolt cutter that comes
with any Village apartment and clip a

Steve
Holbert
hole in the fence.
Once you’re inside the construction zone, camouflage is top priority.
Nobody wants to go to jail the night
before a major exam, so it’s best to
blend in with the surroundings. This is
easily accomplished with the use of an
invisibility cloak or camouflage jacket.
If you do not possess either, stripping
naked and covering yourself with soil
to match the surroundings is just as effective, especially if you bring your
significant other.
Once you’re inside the premises, I
suggest exercising because it’s both a
great use of your time and prepares you
mentally for when the Wellness Center
is completed. Push-ups on piles of dirt
can grow boring very easily, but running your roommate over with a bulldozer and trying to pull it off with your
bare hands is both athletic and exciting. Make sure your roommate e-mails

their teachers in advance in case they
miss class, and remember a person can
only live up to 10 days without water.
When you are tired of exercising, I
suggest exploring for buried treasure.
There is no telling what lies beneath
the destroyed concrete. I checked out
a metal detector from the library, and
each beep became an adventure. What
is it? Gold? Raptor eggs? Flannery
O’Connor’s hopes and dreams? Anything and everything can be easily sold
on Craigslist, and the proceeds can be
donated to the school for the next renovation project, which I hear is an aquarium to better attract mermaids into the
student body.
No matter what you’re doing, just
remember to utilize the grounds to the
best of your ability. Build a sandcastle.
Dig a Shia Labeouf shaped hole. Or you
could always do my personal favorite—
throw your money on the ground and
roll around in your own stupidity.
Comedic as always,
Steve Holbert
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September 17, 2010

The Colonnade

9

Bobcat Beat
Reported
byICHAEL
Michael
Forsyth
REPORTED
BY M
FORSYTH

“What do you think about the Zombies vs. Humans game
taking place on campus right now?”

SevenAteNine

“I have no idea what it is.”

by

WesAllen

L etters

to the

E ditor

“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into
an age of unreason…” Edward R. Murrow
wrote these words in reaction to the Red
Scare, the 1950s witch hunt led by Senator
Joseph McCarthy. Now while I make no
comparison between the Red Scare and the
current cultural zeitgeist against Muslims
in this country, I do see some similarities
between the two.
I agree with Mr. Murrow and believe we
are allowing our fears and imaginations get
the best of us and are slowly being thrust
into an age of unreason and am I unsettled
by the blatant xenophobia I am seeing
spread through the country like wildfire.
Now while there are many arguments
that can be made both for and against the
proposed community center in downtown
Manhattan, we must keep the arguments
grounded. The moment we give into xenophobic and prejudicial fervor, then our
arguments loose all credibility.
We hear that an Islamic group wants to
build a community center in downtown
Manhattan and many begin to scream foul,

neglecting to understand that a mosque
is an Islamic holy site and what is being
proposed is just an Islamic back community center, not unlike the YMCA. I think it
is hard for us, as Westerners, to understand
that there is not one monolithic Islam, but
there are many sects of Islam, just as there
are of Judaism and Christianity. And indeed the men who attacked us on Sept. 11,
2001 were Muslim, but we must not equate
or confuse their radical and fringe beliefs
with moderate Muslims who are also lawful citizens of this country (just you can’t
equate a group like Westboro Baptist with
all Christians).
I feel we are doing the same to many
Muslims communities what were done to
Irish and Italian communities a century
ago; we are allowing fear and xenophobia
dictate how we interact with our fellow
countrymen and so often ignorance, prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

In response to Kristin Cotton’s Letter
to the Editor (9/10/2010), I would say that
this debate has gotten ridiculous, but it
passed that milestone shortly before it began. We cannot, in one breath, say we are
not Islamophobes and that we do not hold
Islam as a whole entity responsible for the
actions of a near-score of men one bright
September morning, and in the next say “...
but building this community center (not
mosque) is insensitive.” Is it, then, insensitive for a church or government building to
be built within a stone’s throw of an Indian
reservation? Certainly, both Christians
and government officials have committed
atrocities against this land’s native inhabitants.
I don’t hold all Christians or all government officials responsible for the acts of a
few, several years ago, but it’s just insensitive! Common sense dictates no churches
or government buildings be built near
native communities- at least, the “common
sense” of the astoundingly large population
of alarmists in America. Is it, by this logic,
insensitive or insulting for southern white
men to live within two blocks of black
men, after the atrocities that even some
of my own ancestors may have participated in? If we are going by this “logic”
(read: alarmist emotional response), then

most definitely! What we fail to take into
account is that Muslims are every bit as
much the victims of Sept. 11 as anyone
else— and not merely because Muslims
died in the attacks. Sept. 11 opened up festering wounds of xenophobia and cultural
misunderstanding between our world and
theirs (spoiler alert: at some point we have
to realize it’s the same world). What Ms.
Cotton may or may not know is that “Stop
Islamization of America” may profess to
fight Islamic extremism, but its true mission is to limit or prevent Islamic immigration. The group is a symptom of our time—
a time in which an entire religion has been
blamed for the actions of a few extremists
who acted completely against the tenets of
said religion. Extremists fighting moderates in the name of fighting extremism.
In conclusion, the arguments against the
“mosque” have zero solid ground on which
to stand. By reacting in an alarmist faction
to a peaceful display of religion, you are
doing far more than the moderates building
the community center could ever do to help
the 19 hypocritical nobodies who murdered
more than 3,000 of our citizens win their
ideological war. Remember that.

L etter

Durham Henderson sophomore biology
major

“I have not participated in it but it is pretty
intense.”

Victoria Bailey, freshman chemistry major

“They do it every year, but it’s pretty weird.”

Whit Young, sophomore management major

“I don’t know anything about it.”

Zenia Bourn, sophomore music major

Ryan James Barr,
Senior history major

“It doesn’t bother me, but it’s not something
I’m used to seeing.”

Dominique Murray, sophomore biology
major

“I think it’s little childish, but if it keeps them
entertained.”

Lindsey Dillard, freshman pre-nursing major

“I think it’s pretty exciting, but it definitely
has been taken too far and should be limited
in the dorm areas.”

Clayton Hall,
GCSU student

Colin Maldonado, sophomore environmental
science major

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Poll of the Week
What is your favorite GCSU sport?
5%
Cheerleading

41%

Basketball

9%
Cross-country
Softball 0%

9%

0% Golf

Tennis
Dear Rednecks,
Please, next time remember to rinse off the lot after you’re done washing the mud
off of your truck. I’m sick of my owner having to watch his step while he details my
body. I like my owner happy, and my interior mud-free. It’s the way we vehicles are
meant to be. Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood Lowrider.
Dear roommate, I get that you want some alone time with your significant other,
but please wait for me to be out of the room when you two go at it. Just because I may
look asleep, doesn’t mean I am asleep. And even if I was asleep, it’s inconsiderate
and rude to fool around with your significant other when your roommate is sleeping
less than twenty feet away from you. The last thing I want to wake up at at 9am is the
sound of you two going at it and moaning.

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Soccer

14%

Baseball

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Features

September 17, 2010 • Editor, Amanda Boddy

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ swoops onto
stage to premiere theatre season
Butterworth suits up as Scout
Emily McCurley
Staff Writer
The lights dim and the
crowd hushes as junior
Carson Butterworth walks
on stage embodying Scout
Finch, the elementary-aged
free spirit of the Theatre
Department’s rendition of
“To Kill a Mockingbird”.
The familiar feeling of
rushing adrenaline reminds
Butterworth of where she’s
come from and all the
preparation going into this
moment.
“Last semester when I
found out we were actually
doing ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ I had that moment
when I was like ‘I really
want to be in that…that’s
what I want,’” the theatre
major said. “I stepped up
my game and I was like,
‘Every moment from this
point forward is my audition.’”
The passion Butterworth
has for acting began in
high school when her older
brother encouraged enrollment in a drama class to
help Butterworth overcome
shyness. As a junior in high
school Butterworth knew

“As an actor
you just have that
moment where
you’re like, I might
be born to play
this role.”
Drake Simons / Senior Photographer
Top: Joe Dumford as Atticus Finch in
the iconic courtroom scene
Far left: Carson Butterworth as Scout
Finch, Ross Daniel as Dill Harris and
Andrew Markle as Jem Finch.
Middle: Sean Casey as Bob Ewell in a
scene where Ewell is attacking Jem and
Scout.
Chelsea Thomas / Staff Photographer
Atticus Finch, Joseph Whidby as Nathan Radley, and Rashad Coleman as
Tom Robinson portraying Robinson’s
trial in the courtroom

Twenty students prepare play in 20 days
Lauren Corcino
Staff Writer
The soft hum in the dark
theatre of Russell Auditorium lowers to a hush as
the stage bursts to life with
colorful dialogue and powerful energy to relay the
timeless story of one man’s
fight for justice in a heavily
prejudiced Southern town of
Maycomb, Alabama in the
GCSU Theatre department’s
production of “To Kill a
Mockingbird.”
“Although (To Kill a
Mockingbird) was written so long ago, it is still a
story that matters. It shows
us what we should still be
learning as a society today,”
Theatre major junior Carson
Butterworth said.
“To Kill a Mockingbird,
“directed by Dr. Amy Pin-

ney is a play of many firsts
for the GCSU Theatre Department. It is the first main
stage show that was completely designed by students
in the areas of costumes,
lighting, set design, sound,
technical directing and stage
managing.
“In the very beginning, I
was nervous. We walked in
that Sunday for rehearsal and
Amy (Pinney) said that we
would be going through tech
rehearsals in three weeks.
I wasn’t sure if everyone
would remember their lines,
but the actors really came
together and surprised me.
After that first rehearsal, no
one really thought about the
time restraint. We just kept
working through it,” Theatre
major junior Erica Mandato
said.
“To Kill a Mockingbird”

is also unique in the fact that
it is the first play at GCSU
which has been put together from start to finish in 20
days with 20 cast members
and the production crew.
“No one ever said if. It
was always a when will the
show come on, not an if.
Everyone involved in the
show put in the positive energy into the play to make
it happen. We had no doubt
that the show would be on in
three weeks, “ Theatre major senior Shirelle Ruddock
said.
Throughout the three
weeks of rehearsals, a strong
community built on teamwork and trust was quickly
developed between the cast
members. By helping each
other with learning lines,
keeping a positive attitude
throughout the process and

bonding in rehearsals, the
cast became a family.
“ I have never had a cast
so invested in helping each
other. While we were able
to put this show together in
20 days, that is not what is
important. What is important is the relationships that
we have built and the exceptional performances and
amazing designs that we put
together,” Pinney said.
While there may have
been doubts about the “To
Kill a Mockingbird” production succeeding in their
goal of producing the play in
20 days from outside spectators, the cast remained optimistic through it all.
Theatre major junior Cat
Lea “ We heard talk about
it being the little show that
could, but it is the great big
show that will.”

Carson
Butterworth
theatre would be her major
and “pounced” as such at
GCSU.
The Alpha Psi Omega
community service co-chair
participates in many productions. In the past Butterworth has been involved
in “Rocky Horror Picture
Show,” “The Rover” and
countless other shows.
She was the assistant stage
manager for “RENT” last
spring and acted in a play
at the Children’s Theatre in
Macon this summer.
While the blonde-haired
blue-eyed student has many
roles to be proud of, none
compare to the significance
of her current one.
“I just knew Scout was
me,” Butterworth said. “As
an actor you just have that
moment where you’re like,
I might be born to play this
role.”
Butterworth feels a special connection with Scout
as both have steadfast families.
“Scout is a character I
could always relate to.”
Butterworth said. “I think
I have my own personal
Atticus in both of my parents. (Also,) I have an older
brother who always guided

Michael Ericson / Staff
Photographer

me through life. It was just
me and him, so we were
best friends.”
Butterworth loves “The
essence of Scout,” which
includes curiosity, lack of a
mental filter and a carefree
attitude however, the tale
also excites her.
The narrative focuses
on Scout’s memory during
the 1930’s when her father,
Atticus, defends an African-American in the court
of law. Her family suffers
persecution for her father’s
decision, and through it
all Scout learns about the
workings of society and realities of prejudices,
“I love the storyline, it’s
so deep and it’s so pivotal,”
Butterworth said. “‘To Kill
a Mockingbird’ is potent.
It’s still applies to our society even though (it’s)
about race. The morals in
the story apply to our current day.”
On stage Butterworth is
surrounded by her Theater
Department family whom
she credits for support and
motivation. She believes
laboring next other actors
gives perspective on how
hard they work to accomplish their goals and dig
into characters. To Butterworth this is more inspiring than simply watching
someone perform.
Dr. Amy Pinney, director
of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
notes Butterworth’s own
dedication to the craft.
“It is truly a pleasure
to work with Carson, in
the classroom and on the
stage,” Pinney said. “She is
a gifted and diligent actor.
With Mockingbird, Carson
reaches the potential which
she has always been capable. My wish is that she celebrates the beautiful result
of this journey.”
Soon, Butterworth will
pick up an English minor
and pursue a position in
teaching drama. For now,
Butterworth leaves any students interested in acting
this advice:
“Dive in. We’re always
looking for new actors. We
love having new faces on
stage, we love having new
faces in auditions. Dive in
head first, don’t look where
you’re going. Just do whatever you can, grab a chance,
any chance. Take the chances that you’re given.”

FolksArt Shop: “from the heart, for the soul”
Brittany Henderson
Staff Writer
Take a three-dimensional palette of Scrabble game pieces, crazy fabric, antique stamps,
recycled metal, old music records and a dash
of acrylic paint, and there on the easel sits the
FolksArt.
As you pass the Scrabble masterpiece
welcoming you in, noticeable quaint chandeliers cast light to recycled art, refurbished
jewelry, multicolored rugs, shadow boxes,
and creative renditions of the Beatles and Dr.
Seuss’ “The Lorax.”
Open since May 5, the FolksArt, a creative addition to the downtown Milledgeville
community, opens its art and services to
GCSU students and locals this fall.
Sandwiched between The French
Vill’Edge and Blackbird Coffee on Hancock
Street, the FolksArt draws in local interest.
With the intent of it being community run
“from the heart, for the soul,” owner Kim Joris looks to satisfy the artistic needs and local
wants of the community.
“Over the past several years, I have had
the goal of some sort of interactive art space

that supported art and artists, to teach it, to
create it, to make it, to sell it, to buy it, and
it just happened that Milledgeville turned out
to be the place,” Joris said.
As a policy studies graduate at Guilford
College and a visiting artist and teacher, Joris has come back to her Milledgeville roots.
Growing up, she aspired to be a writer and
received a D in her only art class. For the past
eight years though, she has aspired to take reusable art and make it her own.
“I take old things and re-purpose them,”
Joris said.
As Joris’ intern for the semester, junior
art major and business minor Sierra Busch
contributes by displaying her own art and
promoting FolksArt. Managing different artwork, marketing to GCSU students, teaching
classes and executing events are only a few
of Busch’s responsibilities as a FolksArt intern.
“I want to have a creative art center,”
Busch said. “I want to offer all different kinds
of classes like performing arts, culinary arts
and martial arts. As long as I take small steps
and build it up to that, it will work eventually.”

In addition to being the FolksArt intern,
Busch sells hand-painted shoes on thewayshewalks.com.
Whether Joris teaches locals to handle
and sell their art or how to run a business,
Joris strives to teach Busch.
“Ultimately I would love for this to be
an art incubators space that helps students to
learn what it would be whether from the business end or the art end,” Joris said.
Because of the lack of a broad art inventory in Milledgeville, Joris wishes to one day
sell art supplies for GCSU students and to
the community. Chair of the Department of
Art Bill Fisher and the FolksArt management
are discussing how the FolksArt and GCSU’s
art department can collaborate for the annual
Deep Roots Festival and GCSU’s art club,
Art Tank.
“I would love student feedback and how
the space could work for them. I’m very interested to know what people, students, faculty and staff have to say, starting with the
students that walk through the door,” Joris
said.
Coming this October, Donna Kaye Forsyth, creator of Souldance Lifecasting Studio

The FolksArt’s Classes
Beginner Continental Knitting
Ceramics: Beads, buttons, and pendants
Pottery: Handbuilding
Knitting in the Round: (2nd class of knitting)
All classes taught by Erika Galloway
For more info call: (478) 453-9550
in Atlanta, is coming to the FolksArt to give
demonstrations on lifecastings, an art form
that creates permanent replicas of life and the
human body.
In the early stages of development, the
FolksArt management considers possible
book clubs, small concerts, poetry readings
and even culinary classes to help promote art.
As a result, Joris has been discussing partnership with an “anything art” promotion with
co-owner of BlackBird Coffee and GCSU’s
Theatre Generalist Faculty Iona Pendergast.
“We are working together to try to continue to draw people downtown for the arts,”
Joris said.

September 17, 2010

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The Colonnade

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Student comedians
crack jokes for C.A.B.

Top Five Undergraduate
Majors at GCSU

If you are one of the 441 students who haven’t declared a major
yet here is a run-down of the most popular majors might help you
decide which major is right for you.
Biology:
With 423 people this is the most popular major at this college.
Many who major in this subject want to become doctors in the
future. Being a doctor requires many long years of school after
graduation from GCSU, but it is a much-needed profession.
Pre-Nursing:
Pre-Nursing has 371 students. Nursing is also an important field
and therefore is a challenging program to get into. Perspective students have to take the TEAS and pass as well as maintain a certain
GPA when they apply.
Management:
Management has 304 making it the most popular business degree
here. It is a very broad degree that can help you do almost anything
in business. You can be a manager of a company and maybe even
own your own business one day. This major helps teach students
how to be as organized as they can be to be an effective employee.
Marketing:
Marketing is the business part of PR and advertising. Every business owner needs a marketing professional to help drum up interest
in his or her product or service. With 282 students this is a popular
major and a growing one.
English:
You don’t have to want to teach English to
join the 263 majors here at GCSU. Elaine
Whitaker the chair of the English Department
says that many of the students who study
English in college have been accepted to
seminary, law school, MAT program as well
as many others. Our president Dorothy Leland
was an undergraduate English major.

Kevin Hall
Staff Writer
A few technical difficulties delayed, but couldn’t
stop the show last Friday
night at the stand-up comedy
night hosted by C.A.B.
Before the show began
in looked like everyone felt
anxious and restless, the
crowd and comedians alike.
The four performing comedians, Steve Holbert, Larry
Ruffin, Drake Simons, and
Andrew George, did not disappoint as they all came out
with their best stories, jokes,
and one-liners.
Second on stage, Larry,
explained to the crowd that he
had never preformed standup before, so if it looked like
he was shaking and about to
fall over, the nerves were just
getting to him a bit.

“I feel like if I were to give
myself a grade, it would be a
B minus. Some of my jokes
went over well, but I went
over on time,” said Ruffin,
a junior pre-engineering major.
Others could share more of
a wealth of experience from
the comedy game. George,
a junior mass communications major, has performed
in several shows, including
opening up for comedians
that have been featured on
Comedy Central and various
late night talk shows.
“The crowd was nerveracking. They didn’t seem
to get some of my jokes,
but I did try some new stuff
that went over well,” George
said.
The crowd participated
and made it as comfortable
as possible for the perform-

ers.
“I had seen Steve before,
and we were just coming out
to support him,” said Sean
Corbitt, a sophomore creative writing major.
“It was full of hilarity, joy
and goodness,” exclaimed
Erica Sanders, a sophomore
psychology major.
Britta Gervais, a junior art
major and C.A.B. representative said that she had hoped
more people would want to
perform, but that the show
went well either way. She
continued in saying that she
hopes more people will want
to participate when they do it
again.
Editor’s Note: Steve Holbert
contributes the weekly satire
column for The Colonnade and
Drake Simons is The Colonnade’s photo editor

Movie Review: The Town
By Danielle Paluga

Chris Moskaly
Reviewer
Ben Affleck's 'The Town' is the movie
equivalent of a tragic soliloquy that journeys
deep into the heart of a prison without bars.
Early reports have described it as a cross between 'The Departed' and 'Heat,' but this is
about much more than just robbing banks.
It's not about corruption in law enforcement,
and it's not about heavy firepower shootouts.
Now, that is not to say that all of these elements aren't still addressed or used in the
film (because they are). But in the tradition
of several previous stories set in the underworld territories of Boston, here is one that
carves a truly unique vision from a very familiar concept. In other words, this is a real
crime story that is actually about people who
commit crimes, and all the others who are affected by the crimes they commit.
The plot itself functions almost like a
bridge from one dead-end fate to another as
four Irish-American thieves prepare to take
down one of the city's most prestigious bank
establishments. Guided by their leader Doug
MacRay (Affleck), the gang uses quality
precision to score big money from the vault,
and then clears their own tracks with a little
bleach. But not before one of them grabs a
hostage, who also happens to be the bank
manager. Her name is Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall), and with a blindfold over her eyes,
the getaway seems to be a clear success once
they take her wallet/ID and drop her off at the
bay shore. But wait...
If she lives in Charlestown, what are the
odds of her living just a few blocks away
from their hideout? In a one square-mile
neighborhood, it's not so unlikely, and Doug's
crew is well aware of this. So to ensure their
safety remains in tact, Doug decides to follow Claire as she struggles from the aftershock of the robbery. After manipulating a
chance-encounter at the laundromat, Doug
meets Claire face-to-face, and through their
eventual courtship, the film begins to slowly
unveil the inner-wounds of its characters.
Claire obviously doesn't recognize Doug's
voice from under the mask, but the more he
listens to her, the more he feels her pain, and
with a gripping performance from Affleck,
we start seeing the tumultuous storm of guilt
and resentment in a man who can't hate himself enough for the life he chose; or in this
case, the life that chose him.
This may be only the second film for Affleck as a director, but stemming from his successful debut in 'Baby,' the man has a deliberate understanding of what makes for good
supporting characters. Whether it's the lifelong friends/fellow thieves, the local crime
lord (Pete Postlethwaite), a teenage alcoholic
mother (Blake Lively) who is also Doug's
ex-lover, or the desperate cop who's tracking
the criminals' every move (Jon Hamm), the
supporting characters in a film are usually the
ones who make the outside world feel more
authentic, and this is by in large one of Affleck's greatest attributes.
In one of the most cutting edge roles since
Mark Wahlberg in 'The Departed,' Jeremy
Renner ('The Hurt Locker') works his performance in 'The Town' like a stick of dynamite
that is just waiting for someone to light the
fuse on top of his head. Most crime stories
try to sell the loose cannons as ignorant side-

Source: Warner Brothers Studios

Grade: A

kicks who just complicate every situation, but
Renner's character Jem is not the type who
settles for second best. He threatens the other
gang members with trash-talk, he blackmails
Doug with his emotions, and nearly blows
cover when he catches Doug and Claire on
a date. It's a gritty portrait for any bad man
who accepts himself as a hopeless pawn in a
crime-ridden society, but Renner grabs it by
the throat in every scene and leaves nothing
to waste as the criminals prepare their next
move.
Shot on location at Fenway Park in Boston, the third act unravels in a scenario where
bad guys dress up as good guys to deviate the
focus of the real cops. There's also plenty of
loud gunfire, as well as a car chase through
the narrow alleys, but the closing minutes of
the film are far more consequential than deciding who will survive and who won't. The
more prudent matter rests on whether or not
we can accept the outcome as a poignant illustration of desperate men who are so good
at breaking in, and yet so incapable of breaking free once the walls start closing in on
them.
Can professional criminals really change
their ways after doing what some of their
own family members raised them to do? Is it
wrong if some of them don't wish to change
because they know no other lifestyle? And
being the outside observers into a world
without innocence, should we as an audience
sympathize with them for being so lost in an
environment that has taught them no better?
There's no way of knowing, but it's important
to notice how Affleck methodically paces
the narrative into a logical closure point that
drives the theme home in the very last shot.
Some called it hopeless with tears in their
eyes as they walked out of the theater. Others
called it disturbing with their faces drained
of expression. But as I turned to the last page
of my pocket notebook, it seems as if fate left
me just enough space for the magic 'M' word
at the bottom.

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September 17, 2010

Motivation behind moving to Mars

‘The Fantastical Colonization of the Planet Mars’ art exhibit
questions if the grass is really greener on the other side
Rebecca Burns
Staff Reporter
An arresting, unearthly
frontier of super-bright rust
sands visited Blackbridge
Hall this past month in Cynthia Brinich-Langlois’ exhibit,
The Fantastical Colonization
of the Planet Mars.
Curious viewers were introduced to the pioneering
couple of planet Mars who
served as spokespeople for
their happy planet from handmade screen prints. They encouraged onlookers to pick
up and move to their lovely
planet leaving all troubles behind on Earth.
Professor Brinich-Langlois
says this concept of the grass
is always greener on the other
side shaped her artwork profoundly.
“I was amazed at how people can really be sold this idea
of a better life somewhere
else,” Brinich-Langlois said.
“We think that maybe if we
get property somewhere, at
some point we will be able to
move there and our life will
be better. So I took it to the
extreme by saying ‘Here’s
some Martian land. It will be
great.’…Of course it’s fake
but it capitalizes on something very real.”
Brinich-Langlois first encountered this concept during her graduate school when
she traveled in the desert for
a semester. In Deming, New
Mexico, a remote city at the
border of Mexico, she learned
of a housing scheme that capitalized on the idea.
“They had this planned
subdivision outside of town
and they marketed all this
land to people far away,”
said Brinich-Langlois. “(The
buyers) were promised good
health and sunshine and that’s
about all that was delivered.
There was no infrastructure,
no electricity or plumbing or
even houses built. It was just
empty lots of land with dirt
roads.”
Sophomore political science and Spanish major Sarah

Crile visited the exhibit during her Understanding Visual
Culture class and found the
juxtaposition of suburban life
and planetary exploration interesting.
“When we go exploring, we try to hold on to our
life,” said Crile. “The theme
of illogical is repeated. (The
woman) is walking on Mars
in high heels and (the man) is
lassoing a house, clearly impossible.”
Initially Brinich-Langlois
only knew that she wanted to
make artwork of deserts. In
January 2009 when she began
searching for images online,
Michael Ericson / Staff Photographer
pictures of Mars kept popping Professor Cynthia Brinich-Langlois gives an artist talk to a group of
up along with Earth’s deserts. students and faculty to introduce her new exhibit.
“They look just like our
deserts,” said Brinich-Langlois. “You can see a picture
of a Martian desert and you
wouldn’t really know it’s not
from our planet. Sand dunes
look like sand dunes. I thought
that was an interesting visual
correlation.”
In addition to the screen
prints, the exhibit also included Transmissions from Mars,
a set of three stop motion videos on which Brinich-Langlois collaborated with Joseph
Mougel, professor at Ringling
University of Art and Design
in Sarasota, Fl.
These videos show the
Rebecca Burns / Staff Photographer
everyday man and woman of
Mars, modeled off the artists Brinich-Langlois’s work is parially inspired by deserts on Earth and
themselves, planting their flag how they look similar to the landscape of the planet Mars.
and stake to Mars, finding the
perfect place for their home, plores visitors to submit their company. They need to know
and growing an unusual gar- “thoughtful and relevant mus- that someone is still thinking
ings on this question of plan- of them,” posts Tony Randen.
Crile sees the opportunity etary relocation” in exchange som.
for one of four hand printed
Other reasons include startto expand the body work.
postcards
Brinich-Langlois
ing
a traveling one and a half
“I thought installation art
that you walk around and in- created. The postcards feature man variety show.
With woodcut astronauts
teract with would have been homes on Mars with inspirational statements riddled with hiding behind her desk and a
interesting,” Crile said.
While the exhibit has end- past space missions such as space themed cook book slid
ed, the colonization of Mars “Fly, like the phoenix from inconspicuously among text
the ashes of your old life.”
books, Brinich-Langlois has
has not.
These submissions are au- certainly found a theme that
Brinich-Langlois continues
her “off-world settlement” tomatically posted to a Word- she connects with deeply and
on a new website tapping press blog for anyone to en- can keep branching out from.
“I’m not getting bored
into that interactive possibil- joy.
“I want to live on Mars anytime soon,” said Brinichity. Her website dedicated
to Sanguine Estates (located so that I can gather all the Langlois. “I think there’s a lot
conveniently on Mars) im- lost rovers and keep them to say about Mars still.”

Anna Morris
Staff Writer
It all started with one idea,
one idea that created a worldwide revolution. Thanks to
Blake Mycoskie, the man
behind TOMS shoes, children who are forced to spend
every day barefoot are being
given a free pair of shoes.
Students from colleges all
over the world, including
GCSU’s own Aubrey Byers,
the President of the TOMS
club, Ansley Tiller and
Morgan Harbin, the co-vice
presidents, are also stepping
forth and helping out with
the cause.
Inspired by the simplicity of being able to provide
a child with a pair of shoes
just by purchasing their own
TOMS shoes, Byers, Tiller
and Harbin decided to start
a TOMS club. On Sept. 9
students gathered between
Parkhurst and Foundation
halls for the club’s first Style
Your Sole party.
Supplied with a pair of
TOMS shoes that had been
previously bought and an
abundance of paint and
markers, students sprawled
all over the lawn and began decorating their shoes.
Freshman pre-mass commu-

nication major Kate Federman, an avid fan of TOMS
shoes, was especially excited
about the event.
“It’s such a great idea to
have this event on campus,”
Fedeman said. “TOMS has
become a really popular
thing. They’re the cool shoes
on campus.”
Creativity was not lacking amongst the event goers.
Splatter paint, self-portraits
and birds were only a few designs that were seen adorning
TOMS shoes. More artistically talented students decorating shoes for their friends
was a common occurrence at
the event. One such student
was freshman environmental
science major Taylor Upole,
who had sophomore premass communication major
Nick Widemer spiff up her
shoes.
“This is my first pair of
(TOMS) shoes,” Upole said.
“I just thought (the idea of
being able to design my own
shoes) sounded cool.”
Along with shoe decorating, a short film about TOMS’
One for One Movement was
shown. The film brought to
light the importance of the
cause and evoked feelings in
Federman.

“It’s so amazing what the
founder is doing,” she said.
“Giving back is so important. What Mycoskie does
really inspires me.”
When the film ended Tiller explained how excited
she is to help TOMS give
away their one millionth pair
of shoe by the end of September.Because of the work
of the TOMS club, the organization is now 43 shoes
closer to their goal.
After the Style Your Sole
party, the event continued
with a TOMS benefit concert
at Buffingtons. The night began with East Coast native
Jessica Long and continued
with Atlanta bands The Less
and Elevation.
Buffingtons was packed
with people and Byers could
not have been any happier
about the turn out.
“Everyone loved it and
told me I should do it again,”
Byers said. “I couldn't be
happier or more proud of the
people who contributed to
this.”
Thanks to Byers, Tiller
and Harbin, GCSU had the
opportunity to be a part of
something as big as the One
for One Movement.

The woman behind the work:
Cynthia Brinich-Langlois
Alexandria Bell
Staff Writer
Born and raised in
Bethel, Alaska, Professor Cynthia BrinichLanglois has broadened
her audience from her
digital studio art and
printmaking students to
the entire campus with
her art exhibition called
“The Fantastical Colonization of the Planet
Mars.” Earning degrees
from Kenyon College
and the University of
New Mexico, BrinichLanglois’ first love has
always been art.
“When I was little my
parents asked me what
I wanted to be when I
grew up, and I said an
artist, only I kept saying
an artist as I got older,”
Brinich-Langlois said.
“I always wanted to be
an artist. Money did not
matter.”
With the strong Yup’ik
Eskimo influence, Brinich-Langlois used a lot
of seeds beads to create art growing up. She
looked at an evolution
textbook for art drawing. Using all the different images of prehistoric
animals compacted in
small pictures interested
her as a child and helped
her with drawing experience. At eight years old,
she used her artistic talents and participated in
a contest where her art
was published in a museum catalog.
In college, BrinichLanglois decided to drop
her English major and
became a studio art major and an environmental biology minor. The
environment is an influence on her and provides
many ideas for art.
One of her most memorable pieces in college
was called “Needlebed.”
A sophomore in college, Brinich-Langlois

won the “Best in show
award” from the Crozier
Center for Women. Using etching, a form of
printmaking, she created
“work that other people
can find an element that
resonates with them,” by
using greens, reds, and
yellows.
“Printmaking is an
archaic way of printing things, newer printing methods just don’t
have the same depth
and complexity as more
traditional printmaking
processes” she said.
Everyone has a hero
and John Stokes is Brinich-Langlois’. Stokes is
an animal tracker that
shows traditional knowledge of indigenous
people by spreading the
lifestyles of these people
that are threatened by
globalization calling it
the “Tracking project.”
Stokes uses his project
as an opportunity to educate people by sharing
their stories.
A vegetarian by nine
years old, Brinich-Langlois was a vegan for
eleven years.
“I cannot remember
what meat taste like,”
she said.
She is the oldest of
three siblings. She is
a limited-term assistant professor, and has
worked for GCSU for
two years. She teaches
printmaking and digital
studio art.
Brinich-Langlois has
been working on her
exhibition since early
2009. Her favorite piece
is a large-scale print
composed of four panels
called “Big Mountain.”
The mountain is covered
with many prints of an
orange surveying flag
that represents all of the
people who want to live
on Mars. The exhibition
was taken down on Sept.
14.

Sports

September 17, 2010 • Editor, Scotty Thompson

Soccer notches pair of wins

Breaking
The

Rule
Caleb Rule
Sports Columnist

Trey Hollins / Staff Photographer
Bobcats’ sophomore forward Anna Wierzbicki works the ball in between two Anderson defenders in last Friday’s 3-0 victory. The Bobcats followed that victory with a
1-0 upset win over Florida Tech on Sunday, giving the program its biggest victory ever over a ranked team.

Bobcats knock off Anderson, upset No. 13 Fla. Tech to move to 2-2 on season
Scotty Thompson
Senior Reporter
The second weekend of the 2010 season was
much kinder to the GCSU soccer team, as the
Bobcats came away with a pair of shutout victories in the 2010 Bobcat Invitational last weekend. A quartet of freshmen powered GCSU to a
commanding 3-0 rout of Anderson University on
Friday, and senior midfielder Ally Treat’s second
half goal against No. 13 Florida Tech on Sunday
proved to be enough, as the Bobcats pulled off a
1-0 upset.
Florida Tech became the highest ranked team
the Bobcats have beaten in program history.
“We really have the mentality that we are
going to go out there and do our job, no matter
what team we are playing,” Bobcats Head Coach
Hope Clark said. “We were waiting to see how
we stacked up against some of the top teams in
the country, and I feel like that game was a pretty
good indication of it.”
Against Anderson on Friday, freshman forward Katie Taylor scored her second goal of the

“We really have the mentality that we are going to go out
there and do our job, no matter
what team we are playing.”
Hope Clark,
Head Coach
season 20 minutes in on an assist from freshman
midfielder Brittaney Borror. Ten minutes later,
Borror connected with freshman forward Alex
Knight for another goal to give the Bobcats a 2-0
advantage going into halftime.
The Bobcats padded their lead in the second
half when freshman midfielder Taylor Yee scored
off an assist from senior forward Jessica Newland
to make it 3-0.
GCSU also got a strong performance from
freshman Taylor Mulryan at the keeper position,
as she had four saves and recorded her first career

shutout.
“It was definitely a good weekend for us,”
Taylor said.
“It’s great to see these freshmen stepping up
for us. They have the full support of the team,”
Clark said. “We’ve been playing just about everyone in all of our games so far, and that is important to being able to develop depth on the team.”
The Bobcats (2-2) finished with 21 shots to
just eight by the Trojans.
In Sunday’s upset win over Florida Tech, the
Bobcats were kept on the defensive side of the
ball the majority of the first half, being outshot
17-4. But Clark said that stat was a little misleading.
“Most of those shots weren’t really on target,”
Clark said. “We were able to force them into taking some bad shots.”
But just five minutes into the second half,
sophomore forward Anna Wierzbicki’s short corner kick found Taylor who then passed it onto
Treat to give the Bobcats a 1-0 advantage.

Soccer page 15

Golf wins big at second tournament
No. 6 Bobcats triumph at SpringHill Intercollegiate by wide margin for first win
Sam Hunt
Staff Reporter
The No. 6 GCSU golf team claimed the
first place title in their second match of the
season at the Spring Hill Suites Intercollegiate in Florence, S.C., hosted by Francis
Marion on Sep. 13-14.
“There were a lot of positive comments
coming from each other and players complimenting each other and picking each other
up,” head coach Jimmy Wilson said. “Confidence is a huge part of it, each player did
their part as far as toughening up the others
and feeding off the others’ confidence themselves.”
The match consisted of three rounds: two
on Monday and one on Tuesday, was held at
the 7,062-yard, par-72 Country Club of South
Carolina course.
Of the fifteen teams that competed in the
SpringHill Intercollegiate, the Bobcats finished their victory with an overall score of
848, which was good enough to defeat the
second place team, Ut-Chattanooga by 18
strokes and the third place finisher, Furman
University by 22 strokes. Out of the five
GCSU players that competed, three finished
in the top 10.
Coming in second in the overall tournament was senior Billy Shida, who shot a 70
in Monday’s first round, a 68 in the second
round, and another 70 in Tuesday’s round.

The
Short
Stop

“What gave us the win was
playing consistently throughout the entire match. We
posted good scores for all
three rounds.”
Patrick Garrett,
Freshman
He was also the leader on the field of parfour holes and averaging 3.83 strokes. Shida
finished with an overall score 208, which put
him at just a single stroke behind the tournament’s first place finisher.
“What was definitely good is that this was
a different style tournament because we all
five played together in a group, when usually at most tournaments we’re separated,”
Shida said. “It was good having the team camaraderie because we all fed off each other,
our coach kept us really relaxed, and when a
couple of people start playing well it kind off
bleeds into everybody.”
Nipping at his fellow Bobcat’s heels was
sophomore Patrick Garrett who finished one
spot behind Shida. Garrett started off with a
67 on the first round and a 71 in Monday’s
second round. In the final round, he shot a

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Shida finished second overall in the tournament with a score of
208 over the course of three rounds to lead the Bobcats.

Upcoming Games
Men’s Tennis:
Sept. 17-19

Soccer:
Sept. 19
Sept. 22

All Day Georgia College
Fall Championsips

1:30
7:00

vs. Barry
vs. Ga. SW

Quote of the Week
“It was kind of weird. I had kind of an
empty feeling in my stomach, not being
out there with them. I had to let the guys
know that I (was supporting them).”
— Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle
Justin Babineaux on his one game suspension for a drug related arrest in December. (ESPN.com).

Here’s today’s rule to
break (literally!). The NFL
rulebook. Calvin Johnson
got robbed, even if the rule
was properly enforced.
Anyone who holds onto the
ball with one hand obviously
caught it.
Here are 20 items on my
mind, each described in 20
words or less. Here we go:
1) Boise State’s not going to
the BCS title game. Dadgumit. Let’s go TCU! Break
the curse!
2) The ACC: Laughingstock.
Only major losses to speak
of. Maybe the MWC should
take their auto-bid.
3)The Braves make me nervous. Find out why on the
most recent podcast of my
radio show with good friend
Joey Nipper (see the bottom
italics.)
4) Scotty Thompson is the
man. If you don’t know him,
he’s the sports editor.
5) My flag football team lost
on a tipped 60-yard pass that
was run into the end zone
with two seconds left on the
clock. C-league playoffs,
here we come!
6) Here’s a poem about those
Falcons:
The offense really stank, The
defense was a tank.
But Turner failed, a touchdown prevailed.
We have poor execution to
thank.
7) Rumors have it Mass
Communication seniors have
to get a Twitter account for
our senior seminar class.
8) I hate Twitter.
9) I’ve won two playoff
games in three years in
intramurals. Call me Tracy
McGrady.
10) Michael Vick...uhm...er...
that was fun to watch. (What
is it with former Falcon
quarterbacks doing well after
Atlanta?)
11) Oklahoma, you’re
absolved after demolishing
Florida State. Ohio State
actually looks legit, too.
12) Does anyone else love
the new-look Sodexho?
Though I hate thinking I’m
going to break one of the
plates every time I eat.
13) The Colonnade is always
looking for new writers.
MSU Lounge, every Monday, 5 PM. Check it out, get
free pizza.
14) So, Halo Reach came out
this week...I’d love to see a
study: How many girlfriends
were single for the 3 days
after Halo came out?
15) Maybe there are good
reasons for a long-distance
relationship....
(No, I’m not single. And yes,
I’m constantly wondering
why she dates me.)
16) NFL Teams that disappointed: San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Cincinnati
NFL Teams I have no idea
about: Minnesota, Chicago,
Detroit, Indianapolis
17) The U.S. Open is easily
the best tennis tournament
on the planet. Night matches
in New York? Yes.
18) I don’t trust dual-threat
quarterbacks. Except Tim
Tebow.
19) I hate Florida. But I’m
madder at myTennessee
Vols. That was embarrassing.
Next week will be too.
20) That poem counts as
two. (Hey look! I cheat like
Kiffin.)

Notable Stat

252

The Atlanta Falcons
quarterback Matt Ryan’s
passing yards for the 2010
season. The Falcons are
currently ranked 11th for
passing yards in the NFL.

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September 17, 2010

Cross Country teams take third
Bobcats, Lady Bobcats finish third at Bobcat Invitational to begin 2010 season
Kristi Rodriguez
Staff Writer
The GCSU cross-country
teams opened up the 2010
season at home hosting the
Bobcat Invitational. Fans
were cheering as both teams
battled with the heat, taking
third place.
Kicking off the preseason
with the women’s 5K race,
senior Dani Destiche (Snellville, Ga.) was the first Bobcat to cross the finish line
and took seventh place with
a time of 21:37. Destiche
is expected to be one of the
team’s most influential leaders during the 2010 season.
As a senior, she expressed
that she has total confidence
in her team, “This year we
received a lot of really good
freshman who are phenomenal. They bring good spirit
to the team as well as fast
and dedicated attributes that
will add to the success of our
season. With the new and
returning runners, I expect
our team to do better than we
have ever done before.”
Junior Karissa Ekstrom

(Alpharetta, Ga.) was 10th in
21:56, with classmate Sarah
Balkcom (Fayetteville, Ga.)
closing in right behind her
taking 12th at 22:09. Freshmen Andrea Byrnes (Snellville, Ga.) took 19th (23:13),
and Allison Lones (Kathleen,
Ga.) was 20th in 23:21, completing the Bobcats top five.
The Lady Bobcats ended
the meet with a total of 83
team points while PBC rival Augusta State University took first with 32 points.
SCAD received runner-up
in the meet and also had the
individual medalist Hannah
Lieberman, who finished in
20:13.
For the men’s side, the
team faced three challenging opponents while competing in the 8K race. Leading
the way for the Bobcats was
Junior Daniel Horseman
(Cohutta, Ga.), who took fifth
at 29:30. Only one spot and
two seconds behind Horseman was classmate Colin
Conroy (Dacula, Ga.).
Also in the top-10 finishers was GCSU’s freshman
Zack Robinson (Snellville,

Ga.), who finished eighth
with a time of 29:57.
Senior Tim Cary (Monroe, Ga.) crossed the line in
30:12 for 11th place, while
freshman Phillip Laskey
(Marietta, Ga.) took 13th in
his first race (30:35), which
wrapped up the Bobcats top
five.
GCSU scored 43 team
points causing them to place
behind the first place SCAD,
and runner up Augusta State
University.
“Even though we did not
take the win, our season still
looks very successful,” Junior Michael Heuette said.
“Our team has been working hard to prepare for the
season. We have gained a lot
of new runners this year, including hardworking freshmen, which adds to our competitiveness to perform at
our best.”
The next stop for the Bobcats will be Sept. 18 in Macon, Ga., where they will be
lacing up their running shoes
to compete in the RunFit Invitational. The meet for both
teams will begin at 10 a.m.

Drake Simons / Senior Photographer
Junior Daniel Horseman took fifth overall in the men’s race with a time of 29:30 in the 8K race. Both
the men’s and women’s teams finished third in the 2010 Bobcat Invitational.

Sports information assistant begins third year
Brittany Henderson
Staff Writer
Tyler Peck breaks the norm by taking on his third year as
GCSU’s sports information graduate assistant.
“Typically graduate assistants are paid for two years, but I
was fortunate enough, I took some undergraduate classes that
they paid for, and I will graduate in December,” Peck said.
Peck expects to graduate from GCSU’s Master of Education in Kinesiology for Human Performance.
As he received his B.A. in Sports Management, Peck
worked with various athletic teams in Clemson, S.C. Peck
worked all areas—he managed equipment, coached and traveled with teams.
As a multiple influence, Peck was always working with
different athletics.
“I just made sure that if something went wrong even with
their shoes, I had an extra pair for them,” Peck said.
Before he took the position, Peck coached at Southwest
Georgia Academy in Damascus, Ga., coaching varsity boy’s
basketball and golf.
In addition, Peck taught physical education and eighthgrade health and helped out with its football program. By the

end of the year, Peck looked for more
opportunities.
Fast-forward a year when he was
offered the graduate assistant position,
which put him back in his hometown
Milledgeville.
“I heard that (Al Weston) was still
looking again, and I was like ‘hey this
could be a good opportunity to come
back,’” Peck said.
Peck
Al Weston, Sports Information Director, highlights Peck’s valuable role in
sports information.
“He works the majority of home contests with the rest of
the sports information staff. His value has been immeasurable, as it’s allowed us as an office to do bigger and better
things than we ever have before,” Weston said.
Updating the GCSU’s sports Web site for statistics, news
releases and biographies are just the few responsibilities he
takes on as the graduate assistant.
With GCSU’s women’s soccer as a priority, Peck works
on the sports marketing side of his job by coming up with
halftime shows and events.

“We typically get there two hours ahead of time before a
game, and we are probably there two hours afterwards,” Peck
said.
Peck’s dedication and passion for college sports aids to
marketing the GCSU athletic program.
Jessica Newland, a senior forward for GCSU soccer, enjoys promoting soccer with Peck.
“He writes great press releases about our games. He is
at most of our games helping out with sound and the scoreboard,” Newland, a mass communication major, said.
With dream of hoping to become an assistant athletic director, Peck already enjoys the student community and interaction. At GCSU, interaction with the athletes on and off the
field or court is a high priority.
“I think that’s pretty cool developing those relationships
with the players, you know if I see them on campus, I say
‘hey’ to them and see how they are doing,” said Peck.
Peck remains hopeful about his future as he prepares to
graduate from GCSU.
“I would like to have a job lined up before I actually graduate,” said Peck. “If the money ever opened up, I would love
to stay at Georgia College, I mean I think it is a great place
to work.”

Plunkett named PBC
athlete of the week
Submitted By
Jessica Newland

File Photo
Sophomore Johan Wadstein (right) will be one of the key returning players for the Bobcats this season.
Wadstein went 12-6 last season, all in second singles along with a 14-7 doubles record.

Men’s Tennis prepares for
first tournament of Fall
Lauren Davidson
Staff Reporter
The GCSU men’s tennis team will launch
their fall season hosting the 10th annual
Windstream GCSU Men’s Fall Championship. The event will kickoff on Sept.17 and
will run through Sept. 19. The tournament
will include competitors from Armstrong Atlantic, Lander University, Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College, Coastal Georgia College, Shorter College and Carson-Newman.
This year’s team returns two of the key
players from last year’s regional finals, junior Jerome Leborgne and sophomore Johan
Wadstein. In addition to all of the returning
players, the team welcomes three newcomers, Tobias Rausch from Germany, Ruslan
Bekeov from Russia and Mario Cardenas
from Kenessaw, Georgia.
“Jerome and Johan, those are our two
highest guys returning,” Head Coach Steve
Barsby said. “If they come out and play well,
the (other) guys will probably just follow

their lead. The new guys who are here right
now, they look real good so far in practice
too, so it will be interesting.”
Wadstein’s status for the tournament is
up in the air due to an ankle injury. Wadstein
says if he plays, he expects that he will try to
be more aggressive and shorten the games.
Barsby believes that the Fall season is a
time to evaluate the team and get ready for
the spring season.
“Any tournament we go to, we’re hoping
to win the flights we put guys in,” Barsby
said. “We’re hoping to compete with the
best teams in the country. There’ll be some
matches that are tough and some that probably aren’t, but if they work their way through
the draw they’ll get some good tennis.”
Sophomore Jerome Leborgne feels there
are some good teams attending the event,
and the competition will be a great test for
the team.
“It will be great if we can show these

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Senior Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.)
of the Georgia College soccer team (2-2)
took her first Peach Belt Conference (PBC)
Goalkeeper of the Week award of the 2010
season as announced by the conference yesterday (Sept. 14).
This is her first honor for the 2010 campaign and 10th overall as a Bobcat.
Plunkett recorded one shutout in as many
games this week. She posted an outstanding
effort between the pipes against No. 13 Florida Tech 1-0, where she recorded six saves.
In three games this young season she has
posted a 1.07 goals against average and a
.842 save percentage.
The Bobcats are back in action this weekend, Sept. 19 at 1:30 p.m. at Bobcat Field
on West Campus taking on Barry University
(2-2).
The Georgia College Department of

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72 giving him a consecutive score of
210, giving him his third place individual
spot.
“What gave us the win was playing consistently throughout the entire match. We
posted good scores for all three rounds,”
Garrett said. “Having guys that can go
out and shoot a score of 71 once it alright
but having guys who can shoot 71 all three
times is excellent.”
Finishing his first career start just outside the top five was freshman Gavin Harper, who finished sixth in the tournament
with an two-under par overall score of 214.
Harper carded a pair of 71s on Monday and
finished out Tuesday’s round with a 72.
Coming in fourth for GCSU and narrowly missing finishing in the top-10 was
sophomore Bernardo Bide, who took the
eleventh place spot.
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finished Monday’s second round with a
71. On Tuesday’s round, Bide finished the
tournament with a 73, giving him an overall score of 216 at even par.
Bringing up the rear for the Bobcats was
freshman Victor Monte who finished with
an overall all score of 242.
Monte took 79th place in the tournament
and shot an 80 in Monday’s first round, a
79 in the second round, and an 83 in Tuesday’s round.
GCSU will be on the road again on Sep.
27-28 as they travel to Destin, Fla., to compete in the Sandestin Collegiate Championship, hosted by West Florida.
“We’ll take a couple days off from
practice and get some school work done
and then sit down at the first of next week
and try to figure out who we’re going to
take as our five next week, which is a pretty good dilemma to have,” Coach Wilson
said. “We just need to keep working hard,
practicing, stand up on our class work and
try to improve little bit every day.”

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Intramurals see record number of participation
Wesley Tanner
Staff Writer
West Campus is bustling with sports
this semester as intramural flag football has
reached a record number of players—over
100 teams. Also, the addition of kickball
leagues has drawn many people with its lure
of nostalgic childhood memories.
“Kickball is the greatest sport of all time.
I don’t know why there isn’t a major league
kickball. We’re taking our grade school skills
and putting them to use,” player Patrick
Clark said.
The intramural leagues at GCSU have
been recognized statewide and nationally

By
The
Numbers

with the success of 2008 National Runnerup Men’s Flag Football team, White Out,
and 2009 National Runner-up Coed Softball
team, Blue Light Special.
Though some of the leagues are highly
competitive there is always space for casual
players. There isn’t any form of qualification from one league to the other but a general rule is that A leagues are for competition
and B leagues are for people looking to take
a break from homework. There’s something
for everyone.
The Mens A league Flag football teams
consist of several athletes with more experience: some crossed over from varsity sports
and others veterans of the intramural scene.
Electric Feel is an early favorite but they

struggled in overcoming Delta Tau Epsilon.
Hand Puppet Mafia is the team that shined
last week, bringing down Kappa Alpha Order
by a 21 point deficit.
Those too stressed from their rigorous
classes to abide the pressures of the gridiron
wandered over from The Village to participate in the throwback sport, kickball. The
kickball league is easy-going and self-officiated. A staff member is available for rulings
but final decisions are all made by the players. It’s hard to take these games too seriously when ten to twenty runs can be scored in
an inning, but it’s kickball and no one should
take it that seriously. Anyone arguing a ruling too aggressively is considered a kickball
curmudgeon and frowned upon.

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23

Number of men’s teams
enrolled in the fall football league.

Number of women’s
teams enrolled in the fall
football league.

Number of Co-ed teams
enrolled in the fall football league.

Swim Cats to hold first meet
Graham Williams
Staff Writer
The GCSU Swim Cats swim club will
host its first meet of the 2010-2011 school
year on Saturday, Sept. 18, at 10 a.m., at
Centennial Pool.
“The meet will last for three to four
hours”, said Ansley Campbell, the vice
president of the club and a junior psychology major.
Campbell has been with the club since
the beginning, however she started swimming in high school and stuck with the
sport.
“I can compete in any event but I prefer
to do breast stroke,” Campbell said.
Unlike some swim teams the Swim
Cats suggest strokes for members based
on their strengths and it is ultimately their
choice whether or not to compete.
The meet will be the first of four
throughout the fall semester. Since the
meet is hosted by the Swim Cats, the meet
will be quite smaller in comparison to the
others to follow.
“The meet will consist of about four to
five teams overall,” Campbell said.
Typical swim meets at bigger schools
have up to 20 or 30 teams with over 100
members competing.
This year the Swim Cat roster contains

about 20 students.
“There are a lot of new people on the
team which makes our chances of winning
events higher,” Campbell said.
Since the meet is so early in the year
and so small, it is more of a tradition rather
than strict competition. However, Campbell reassures it is always nice to win your
event.
The meet consists of typical events.
Students from GCSU compete in a variety
of strokes however one tradition is not the
typical event someone might see at a college swim meet.
The Swim Cats began in 2005 with the
intentions of giving those who used to
swim and those who may want to swim an
opportunity to compete.
The team is comprised of a variety of
different swimmers on different levels of
swim skill.
“You don’t have to have swam in high
school to come to practices and compete.
Everyone is welcome. All you need is determination to stick with it. Some jammers
and goggles may help too,” Campbell
said.
The Swim Cats are planning to travel
to UGA, Georgia Tech, Elon and Appalachian State to compete this semester however the swim season continues throughout the whole year.

So far, several people involved with intramurals are enjoying the new season.
“Everything is running smoothly. It’s lots
of fun,” intramural staff member Dylan Penick said.
“This is the best year so far,” said Marvin
Guelce, a graduate student who has played
all intramural sports since 2005.
Flag football and kickball games will be
held Monday through Thursday, between
8pm to midnight, on the West Campus fields
throughout September. Soccer and frisbee
leagues will begin in October. Registration
can be completed on imleagues.com and is
open until the end of the season. For more information contact Chris Russell at 478-4327054 or email gcsuRecSports@gmail.com.

48

Overall number of
teams enrolled in the
fall kickball league

143

Overall number of
teams currently playing
intramurals. imleagues.com

Soccer

lor said. “We did very well
the first game and picked it
up in the second half against
a very strong Florida Tech
team.”
That strong second half is
something Taylor hopes the
Bobcats can build on.
“We need to keep improving on our consistency,” she
said. “We struggled with it
the first weekend, and a little
bit this past weekend.”
“We just need to keep
working hard and coming together,” Clark said.
GCSU returns to action
Sunday at home against
Barry University in the 2010
Little Feet Invitational. The
game begins at 1:30 p.m.

Tennis

Franks said. “I think the first tournament will
be an experience, but then after that once
we’ve played a few matches, I think we’ll
be pretty pumped up. We’ll be ready to roll.
We’ll be in full steam come regionals.”
The team finished their 2009-10 season
with a 16-7 overall record and took third in
the Peach Belt Conference with a record of
6-3.
In last year’s Windstream GCSU Fall
Championships, the team was able to win
three titles.

the Panthers throughout the
second half, and senior goalContinued from page 13... keeper Mary Rob Plunkett
“I was really excited; I had was able to fend off a few
no idea I was going to be able last minute opportunities for
to score the goal,” Treat said. the visiting team to preserve
“Two wins at home is really the victory. The biggest save
awesome. We were able to from Plunkett came with just
figure out some issues on de- 40 seconds left on the clock,
fense against Florida Tech in as the All-American made a
the second half, and we came diving stop.
Treat, Plunkett, Taylor,
away with the victory.”
“We were all working hard Borror and Yee all garnered
out there,” Treat added. “We All-Tournament team selecdominated in the first game, tions for the Bobcats.
Taylor has been one of
and we were really strong in
the second half of the second several freshmen making a
strong impact early on for
game.”
GCSU was able to get the Bobcats.
“It feels good to be able to
better defensive pressure on
contribute to the team,” Tay-

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teams that we are going be hard to defeat,”
Leborgne said. “It would be nice to take three
wins as (we did) last year.”
Sophomore Tyler Franks believes with all
the hard work they have put in, the team will
be successful.
“I think that we’ll be relatively successful
because of all the hard work that we’ve been
putting in this fall throughout conditioning,”